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

2. Why does Antoinette resent the nuns' cheerful faces?
(a) They are only nice when visitors are there.
(b) She is forced to stay with them.
(c) They are mocking her.
(d) She believes they are safe.

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

4. Where do the newly married Mason's spend their honeymoon?
(a) Spanish Town.
(b) London.
(c) Trinidad.
(d) Dominica.

5. What does Antoinette pray for?
(a) A husband.
(b) Death.
(c) Her mother to get well.
(d) Happiness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of food do the Mason's eat?

2. Where does Antoinette go to school?

3. What does Mr. Mason say the servants can smell?

4. What type of stories are read to the school girls when they do their needle work?

5. What is a glacis?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the dream Antoinette mentions having just after her fight with Tia?

4. Describe who is speaking when Part Three begins.

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

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

7. Who is Aunt Cora?

8. What is her husband's reaction to Antoinette's story about sleeping in the moonlight?

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

10. Does Antoinette's husband witness any behavior in Antoinette that confirms his concern about her?

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