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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What role is difficult for Eugene in Chapter 9?

2. What does Philomene do when Clement arrives?

3. What would happen if Suzette and Nicholas marry?

4. What does Suzette say about Doralise when talking to Philomene?

5. Why is Clement bruising by the time he gets to Philomene in Chapter 15?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the overseer announce to Francoise one day?

2. What does Philomene say about her own light skin?

3. What does Joseph Ferrier agree to do after Suzette talks to Oreline in Chapter 14?

4. With whom is Suzette enamored, but what is her mother's response to that?

5. What does Suzette ask Oreline to do, and what is Oreline's response?

6. Of whom does Eugene Daurat remind Suzette?

7. Why does Suzette steal some eggs and take them to Palmire?

8. Of what is Philomene aware concerning her emerging womanhood?

9. What does Elisabeth urge Philomene to tell Clement?

10. What does Suzette ask Doralise concerning Gerant, and what is Doralise's reply?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Elisabeth urges Philomene to take what happiness she can find in life.

In what ways do the slaves find happiness in the system which controls and abuses them? Use examples from Cane River to support your response.

Essay Topic 2

Narcisse tells Philomene that she needs "a man who could protect her." Philomene is unimpressed with the argument, saying that the only thing she actually needs protection from is slavery and that Narcisse isn't going to do that.

What are some of the ways in which Narcisse does protect Philomene, and why do you think he never freed her? Use examples from Cane River to support your response.

Essay Topic 3

Elisabeth says that she knows any one of them - or all of them - could be sold at the whim of their owners. It's around this time that Suzette realizes that the childhood days of companionship with the white children are gone.

What are the reasons Suzette will not be able to play with the white children any longer and how does that impact her life? Use examples from Cane River to support your response.

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