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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What time at night is it when M. Lenormand de Mézy goes out to rape one of the slave girls in Part Two: Chapter III?
(a) 11
(b) 9
(c) 10
(d) 8

2. M. Lenormand de Mézy takes his slaves where to sell them in the end of Part Two: Chapter IV?
(a) Cuba
(b) Trinidad
(c) Mexico
(d) Alabama

3. What is the name of the nearby city to the plantation where Ti Noël lives in Part One: Chapter I?
(a) Santo Maria
(b) Havana
(c) The Cap
(d) Corsica

4. For how long does M. Lenormand de Mézy stay in his hiding place before coming out to examine his plantation in Part Two: Chapter IV?
(a) 5 days
(b) 2 days
(c) 15 days
(d) 11 days

5. For how many years do the slaves await Macandal’s return, according to the narrator at the end of Part One: Chapter VI?
(a) 4 years
(b) 1 year
(c) 2 years
(d) 7 years

6. What do Ti Noël and Macandal poison in Part One: Chapter III?
(a) A horse
(b) A goat
(c) A cat
(d) A dog

7. With what African gods do the slaves make a pact in Part Two: Chapter II?
(a) The Bacax
(b) The Osebo
(c) The Nyame
(d) The Loas

8. Ti Noël is a slave on a plantation where in Part One: Chapter I?
(a) Corsica
(b) Havana
(c) Brazil
(d) Santo Domingo

9. Ti Noël goes with Macandal to visit whom in Part One: Chapter III?
(a) Ti's mother
(b) A Voodoo practitioner
(c) Macandal's sister
(d) Henri Christophe

10. What does the plantation owner hum as he and Ti Noël return to the plantation in Part One: Chapter I?
(a) A naval tune
(b) A religious hymn
(c) A folk song
(d) A classical symphony

11. What do the slaves believe has happened to Macandal at the end of Part One: Chapter VIII?
(a) He is imprisoned
(b) He has escaped
(c) He has become pope
(d) He is dead

12. What does M. Lenormand de Mézy’s second wife have built in Part One: Chapter VII?
(a) A windmill
(b) A church
(c) A Nativity scene
(d) A cabin

13. What is Part Two: Chapter II’s title?
(a) The Solemn Pact
(b) Saint Calamity
(c) The Reckoning
(d) The Portents

14. Whose rotting head is displayed in the Cap in Part Two: Chapter IV?
(a) Bouckman's
(b) Queen Marie-Louise’s
(c) Corneille Breille’s
(d) Ti Noël’s

15. What elicits an accusation regarding the poisonings from one of the slaves in Part One: Chapter V?
(a) He is threatened with drowning
(b) He is repeatedly whipped
(c) He is held to a fire
(d) He is held at gunpoint

Short Answer Questions

1. What ethnic group is Macandal described as belonging to in the novel?

2. What is Ti Noël in charge of what on the plantation in Part One: Chapter I?

3. M. Lenormand de Mézy discovers that his wife has been murdered with what in Part Two: Chapter IV?

4. M. Lenormand de Mézy's wife dies after eating what in Part One: Chapter V?

5. What is Part One: Chapter III’s title?

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