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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Suzette's relationship to Palmire and Apphia?
(a) Siblings.
(b) She does not know either of them.
(c) Cousins.
(d) Just friends.

2. What is a major event that happens to Louis at the opening of Chapter 6?
(a) He is promoted to a Governorship.
(b) He dies.
(c) His wife leaves him.
(d) He goes bankrupt.

3. What does Garasime say is attached to the slaves after the assessors come?
(a) A price.
(b) A taint.
(c) A future.
(d) A scar.

4. Following Francoise’s death, who does Doralise promise to try to help?
(a) Gerasime.
(b) Philomene.
(c) Gerant.
(d) Palmire.

5. What do Clement and Philomene have permission to do?
(a) Trade plantations.
(b) Go to school in the evenings.
(c) Marry.
(d) Visit each other every other Sunday.

6. What is returned to Tessier that keeps him from selling Clement to Narcisse?
(a) Three escaped slaves.
(b) The barrels of oil.
(c) The boat and furs.
(d) A satchel of money.

7. What is Elisabeth's job at the plantation?
(a) Scribe.
(b) Tailor.
(c) Cook.
(d) Accountant.

8. What does Suzette say about the relationship between Doralise and Philippe?
(a) It is romantic.
(b) It is lopsided.
(c) It is deteriorating.
(d) It is blissful.

9. What role is difficult for Eugene in Chapter 9?
(a) Executor of Rosedew.
(b) Slave trader.
(c) Executioner for two slaves who tried to escape.
(d) Father of Philomene.

10. In Chapter 8, what do Gerasime and Elisabeth say they will not do?
(a) Seek a new mate.
(b) Curse God.
(c) Cry.
(d) Leave the plantation alive.

11. How does Clement earn extra money?
(a) Making bows.
(b) As a blacksmith.
(c) Playing the fiddle at dances.
(d) Selling his flutes.

12. Upon how many different plantations do Suzette's family members live in Chapter 9?
(a) 7.
(b) 5.
(c) 12.
(d) 3.

13. With what was Philomene afraid Narcisse would interfere?
(a) Marrying Clement.
(b) Being sold to Clement's owner.
(c) What she names her new daughter.
(d) Being freed.

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

15. How does Palmire communicate?
(a) Just like everyone else.
(b) Writing.
(c) Psychically.
(d) With gestures.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Narcisse seem indifferent about when Clement comes and talks to him?

2. What does Clement almost get caught in while on the river?

3. To whom is Eugene Daurat related?

4. What does Suzette say is all Eugene has done for her?

5. What does Suzette think when she is ill in Chapter 4?

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