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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 is Alexandre named president of in 'Citoyenne'?

2. What does Rose have a vision of while in prison?

3. In what environment does Alexandre not want Eugene to be raised in?

4. What is the name of Alexandre's brother?

5. Why is Rose sad when she leaves her island home in 'Madam'?

Short Essay Questions

1. What message is delivered when Rose hears a voice while in prison?

2. Who is Emilie and what role does she have in Rose's family?

3. Why would people refer to Eugene as a "dauphin"?

4. What big favor does Rose ask of her friends, Princess Amalia and her brother, Frederick in 'Citoyenne'?

5. Why does Rose leave the island prior to an invasion by the English?

6. What effect does the turmoil in France have on Rose's life in 'Citoyenne'?

7. Why do Rose and Hortense make a trip to Rose's family's plantation home in 'Madam'?

8. What is Hortense's reaction to Alexandre upon her return to Paris?

9. Why does Claire believe that Mimi should be sold?

10. What is the situation regarding Rose's filing for a legal separation from Alexandre?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the death motif in the novel "The Many Lives and Secret Sorrows of Josephine B". Who dies in the novel and why? How do these deaths affect Rose, particularly the death of her first husband, Alexandre?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the real historical figures which Gulland depicts in the novel. Who are they? Does Gulland depict these figures accurately? Does she change any elements of their lives to further the plot?

Essay Topic 3

Analyze and interpret the relationship between Rose and Lazare. Under what circumstances do they meet? Does Rose feel any guilt for being with Lazare? Why or why not? How does the affair end?

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