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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6-10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Suzette slip out to the slave quarters to give Palmire in Chapter 7?
(a) Francoise's bequest to buy back Palmire's children.
(b) A letter.
(c) Money.
(d) Eggs.

2. Why do the lives of the slaves improve in the time leading up to their being sold?
(a) The cruel overseer has been sold.
(b) They want the slaves to look good for the sale.
(c) Oreline demands that the overseer treat them better.
(d) A new overseer has been hired.

3. Who does Jacques Tessier buy?
(a) No one.
(b) Gerant and Philomene.
(c) Palmire and Suzette.
(d) Clement and his mother.

4. What does Elisabeth know about Suzette and Nicholas in Chapter 2?
(a) Suzette is enamored of Nicholas.
(b) Nicholas plans to take Suzette to freedom.
(c) They have been together a few times.
(d) They have secretly decided to marry.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Madame Derbanne chastise at the beginning of the book?

2. Why does Suzette send word to the slave quarters the minute Francoise dies?

3. What relation is Narcisse to Oreline?

4. In Chapter 8, what do Gerasime and Elisabeth say they will not do?

5. What does Garasime say is attached to the slaves after the assessors come?

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