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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The immense brick fortress described in Part Three: Chapter III is located on top of what mountain?
(a) Borghese Palace
(b) La Tortue
(c) Auberge de la Couronne
(d) Le Bonnet de l'Évêque

2. What does King Henri Christophe do at the end of Part Three: Chapter VI?
(a) He shoots himself
(b) He jumps off a cliff
(c) He slits his wrists
(d) He hangs himself

3. In Part Three: Chapter II, Ti Noël walks for several days before finding the plantation that once belonged to whom?
(a) General Leclerc
(b) Governor Blancheland
(c) M. Lenormand de Mézy
(d) Queen Marie-Louise

4. How did Ti Noël come to be the slave of a Cuban plantation owner, according to the narrator in Part Three: Chapter I?
(a) Ti Noël ran away and was captured
(b) M. Lenormand de Mézy sold him
(c) M. Lenormand de Mézy lost him in a card game
(d) M. Lenormand de Mézy donated him

5. Who is the replacement for King Henri Christophe’s priest and confessor in Part Three: Chapter IV?
(a) General Leclerc
(b) Bouckman
(c) Soliman
(d) Juan de Dios González

Short Answer Questions

1. The statue of Venus of Canova was modeled by whom, according to the narrator in Part Four: Chapter I?

2. What does Soliman fall ill with in Part Four: Chapter I?

3. One of Pauline’s maids discovers Pauline and a slave performing a ritual in which what animal has been sacrificed in Part Two: Chapter VII?

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5. To whom does Pauline Bonaparte turn to perform voodoo rituals against the plague in Part Two: Chapter VII?

Short Essay Questions

1. What leads to Pauline Bonaparte’s experimentation with Voodoo in Part Two: Chapter VII?

2. What are Ti Noël’s first impressions of Santo Domingo in Part Three: Chapter I?

3. Where does Ti Noël escape to in Part Three: Chapter IV? Why does he return to the Cap?

4. What happens to King Henri Christophe’s body in Part Three: Chapter VII?

5. How is Santo Domingo described after Pauline Bonaparte’s departure in Part Two: Chapter VII?

6. How is Pauline Bonaparte’s behavior depicted after her arrival on the island in Part Two: Chapter VI? What is her relationship to Soliman?

7. What supernatural occurrence is described in Part Three: Chapter V?

8. How is the slavery under King Henri Christophe described in Part Three: Chapter III?

9. What great fortress is described in Part Three: Chapter III? How is the reference to bulls in the title of the chapter associated with this setting?

10. What causes King Henri Christophe’s suicide in Part Three: Chapter VI?

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