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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. Immediately following Antoinette's description of her dream, what does the nun tell Antoinette to do after they have talked?
(a) Pray.
(b) Think happy thoughts.
(c) Go back to bed.
(d) Stay awake for the rest of the night.

2. What kind of food do the Mason's eat?
(a) Traditional Jamaican food.
(b) Rich, delicioius, spicey food.
(c) Mostly French food.
(d) English food.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Antoinette feel about the convent?

2. What does Antoinette remember when she is speaking with the nun after her dream?

3. What does Antoinette call her step-father one night?

4. What becomes of Antoinette's mother after they leave Coulibri?

5. How does Antoinette feel about the garden?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Antoinette know what is behind the locked door?

3. Why is Grace Poole angry with Antoinette the morning Antoinette wakes up with swollen, red wrists?

4. Is there any evidence of passion between Antoinette and her husband?

5. Describe the events immediately leading up to the fire at Coulibri Estate.

6. Who are the Luttrells?

7. What is Christophine's fate at the end of Part Two?

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

9. How is Sandi reintroduced into Antoinette's narrative of Part Three?

10. What becomes of Antoinette's mother at the close of Part One?

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