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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who rescues Antoinette from being harassed and taunted by a mean boy and girl near the end of Part One?
(a) Sass.
(b) Sandi.
(c) Aunt Cora.
(d) Alexander.

2. In the story, how do the newly freed slaves behave towards their former white owners?
(a) They are discontent and some work grudginly for their former owners.
(b) They continue to work happily for their former owners.
(c) They don't care one way or the other about their former owners.
(d) They rebel and kill many of the former slaveowners.

3. What type of stories are read to the school girls when they do their needle work?
(a) History of the British Empire.
(b) Stories of Queen Victoria.
(c) The lives of saints.
(d) How to behave like ladies.

4. How does Antoinette describe everything at her school?
(a) Brightness or dark.
(b) Very colorful.
(c) Cool and soothing.
(d) Grey like the stones.

5. How does Antoinette feel when Mr. Mason tells her about their visitor(s)?
(a) Excited.
(b) Frightened.
(c) Uncertain.
(d) Dismay.

Short Answer Questions

1. What significant event occurs just before the story begins?

2. Who is Christophine?

3. What does Antoinette remember her mother wearing as Part One ends?

4. Where does Antoinette arrive in her dream?

5. How does the Bishop feel about the nuns?

Short Essay Questions

1. What reason does Mr. Mason give for staying at Coulibri after he marries Antoinette's mother?

2. Describe the room that Antoinette visits one night when she has taken the keys from Grace.

3. What is Antoinette's connection to the Grandbois estate?

4. What does Antoinette know about Grace Poole?

5. Does Antoinette's husband like Grandbois?

6. How does Antoinette describe the garden at Coulibri?

7. Does Antoinette's husband seem happy about his recent marriage?

8. What does Antoinette see in the sky during her unsettling dream?

9. What is Antoinette's husband's response about her thoughts on death?

10. What does Antoinette's husband say about her comments about England?

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