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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. What is Mrs. Cosway's situation at the beginning of the story?
(a) She is a poor widow of five years.
(b) She is the loving and caring mother of two children.
(c) She is moving to England with her children.
(d) She is an important part of Spanish Town society.

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

3. Why do Mr. and Mrs. Mason frequently argue?
(a) Mrs. Mason does not want to send her children to school.
(b) Mr. Mason is having an affair with a black servant girl.
(c) Mrs. Mason wants to move away from Coulibri Estate.
(d) Mr. Mason wants to sell Coulibri Estate.

4. What does Antoinette remember when she is speaking with the nun after her dream?
(a) She likes to eat cake.
(b) That her mother is dead.
(c) She wants to move to England.
(d) She misses Christophene.

5. How do the nuns describe beauty to Antoinette?
(a) It is a mortal sin,
(b) It is transcendent.
(c) Beauty comes from the soul.
(d) It is to be greatly desired.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is invited to spend the winter with Mr. Mason?

3. What does Antoinette pray for?

4. How does Antoinette's demeanor change after she leaves school?

5. Who goes with Antoinette to visit her mother?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Christophine live with the Cosways?

2. Describe the incident Antoinette reveals to her husband about what happened to her when she was a young girl at Grandbois.

3. Describe Antoinette and Tia's friendship early in the narrative.

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

5. Does Antoinette's husband seem to change the morning after he and Antoinette share their first intimate evening together at Grandbois?

6. What happens when Antoinette arrives at the convent school for her first day?

7. Does Antoinette understand where she is when she is describing her circumstances at the beginning of Part 3?

8. Who introduces Amelie into the story and how is she described?

9. How does Antoinette's husband describe the island in the beginning of Part Two?

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

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