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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 16-21.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the overseer recommend in Chapter 6 in order for Francoise to get some needed cash?
(a) Sell some slaves.
(b) Rotate among more crops.
(c) Plant cotton in more of the acreage.
(d) Find a wealthy man to marry.

2. Who is Gerant's father?
(a) Gerasime.
(b) Monsieur Derbanne.
(c) Eugene.
(d) No one knows.

3. Who is Joseph Ferrier?
(a) A freed black who is in love with Suzette.
(b) The man who Francoise arranges a marriage to for Oreline.
(c) A soldier who comes and ransacks the plantation.
(d) A man who is hired as the new overseer.

4. What has Madame Derbanne just done to Suzette as the book opens?
(a) Bandaged a wound.
(b) Slapped her.
(c) Cut her hair.
(d) Whipped her.

5. To whom is Eugene Daurat related?
(a) The Derbannes.
(b) Elisabeth.
(c) No one else who appears in the novel.
(d) Gerasime.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Clement lose sight of when he gets to shore?

2. What would happen if Suzette and Nicholas marry?

3. What is Narcisse's body build?

4. What is Elisabeth's job at the plantation?

5. What does Suzette slip out to the slave quarters to give Palmire in Chapter 7?

(see the answer key)

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