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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is wrong with Pierre as a child?
(a) He tries to kill his sister.
(b) He staggers when he walks and cannot speak clearly.
(c) He finds out his father is a former slave owner.
(d) He falls off his horse and is badly injured.

2. What is Mrs. Cosway's situation at the beginning of the story?
(a) She is the loving and caring mother of two children.
(b) She is an important part of Spanish Town society.
(c) She is a poor widow of five years.
(d) She is moving to England with her children.

3. What is Antoinette's husband's impression of the people living on the honeymoon island?
(a) They are greedy.
(b) They are cheerful.
(c) They are lazy.
(d) They are sombre.

4. What shocks Antoinette's husband too much to speak?
(a) Christophine tries to poison him.
(b) Daniel Cosway is murdered.
(c) Baptiste ignores his orders.
(d) The way his wife looks the night she gets home late.

5. What is the importance of the green parrot, Coco?
(a) The parrote belongs to one of the family servants.
(b) The parrot dies in front of the family, which is very bad luck in Jamaica.
(c) The parrot squawks loudly to warn the family a fire broke out in the mansion.
(d) The parrot is a favorite childhood pet of Antoinette's.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the weather like when the couple arrive on the island?

2. How do Antoinette and her husband get to the cottage?

3. What is the name of the porter?

4. Who should Antoinette's husband have written to earlier?

5. What does Antoinette/Bertha say she sees in the sky near the end of Part Three?

(see the answer key)

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