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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Mr. Brightman go for a meeting?
(a) Chicago.
(b) Atlanta.
(c) Washington, D. C.
(d) New Orleans.

2. Who has just been killed in a railroad accident?
(a) Josephine.
(b) Brently.
(c) Louise.
(d) No one.

3. Where does Athénaïse go when she leaves Cazeau a second time?
(a) New Orleans.
(b) Lafayette.
(c) Atlanta.
(d) Charleston.

4. How much advance payment does Sublet give the 'Cadian man?
(a) Nothing.
(b) 10 silver dollars.
(c) 20 gold pieces.
(d) 2 silver dollars.

5. What is one thing Mrs. Sommers buys at the store with her newly-acquired money?
(a) Silk stockings.
(b) Clothes for the children.
(c) Chocolate for the children.
(d) A stack of books.

6. What frightens Calixta?
(a) The hobo starts acting strange.
(b) Bobinôt is late.
(c) Lightning striking a tree.
(d) Lightening strikes the house.

7. Who does Gabriel kill?
(a) No one.
(b) Himself.
(c) Everson.
(d) Elodie.

8. Upon what is Mrs. Sommers focused?
(a) Finding a husband.
(b) The needs of her children.
(c) The cruel gossip.
(d) Finding a job.

9. What does Désirée do with herself and her baby?
(a) Goes to live with her parents.
(b) Appeals to the priest to intervene.
(c) Kills herself and her baby.
(d) Kills Armand.

10. Why does Clarisse follow Alcée to the ball?
(a) Because she loves him.
(b) To keep him out of mischief.
(c) To find out if he is really going to the ball.
(d) She does not follow him.

11. What does Bobinôt want of Calixta?
(a) To marry her.
(b) To borrow her horse.
(c) For her to bake him a cake.
(d) To borrow money.

12. Where did Elizabeth Stock work?
(a) She is unemployed.
(b) At the post office in Stonelift.
(c) She is a baker's helper.
(d) She works at the local bank.

13. What does Elodie take from Everson?
(a) His watch and money.
(b) His gold teeth.
(c) His cross.
(d) Nothing.

14. Why is Louise feeling relieved?
(a) Because she is a free woman.
(b) Because her father survives the train accident.
(c) Because her brother survives the accident.
(d) She is not relieved.

15. What is Calixta's response to Bobinôt's question?
(a) She will bake him a cake if he will introduce her to his brother.
(b) She has not yet given a response.
(c) She has said she will lend him her pony, but not her find mare.
(d) She has said no.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Aunt Dicey say Sublet will do to the 'Cadian man?

2. Where does Mrs. Sommers go after the store?

3. Who are Bobinôt and Calixta and Alcée Laballière and Clarisse?

4. How does Mrs. Baroda feel when she speaks to Gouvernail?

5. What does Evariste ask to be identified as?

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