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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Antoinette describe everything at her school?
(a) Very colorful.
(b) Brightness or dark.
(c) Cool and soothing.
(d) Grey like the stones.

2. What is the importance of the green parrot, Coco?
(a) The parrot dies in front of the family, which is very bad luck in Jamaica.
(b) The parrote belongs to one of the family servants.
(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.

3. Where does Antoinette go to school?
(a) Mount Calvary Convent.
(b) Spanish Town School for GIrls.
(c) Queen Victoria's Royal Academy.
(d) Saint Mary's.

4. How does Myra always look?
(a) Dull.
(b) Mournful.
(c) Sad.
(d) Cheerful.

5. Immediately following Antoinette's description of her dream, what does the nun tell Antoinette to do after they have talked?
(a) Go back to bed.
(b) Think happy thoughts.
(c) Pray.
(d) Stay awake for the rest of the night.

6. Where does Antoinette go soon after she leaves Coulibri Estate?
(a) She moves to Trinidad with a servant.
(b) A school for Creole girls in Spanish Town.
(c) She is sent to Dominca to attend school.
(d) She moves to England with her aunt.

7. How does Antoinette feel in her dream?
(a) Afraid.
(b) Safe.
(c) Curious.
(d) Giddy.

8. How do the nuns describe beauty to Antoinette?
(a) It is to be greatly desired.
(b) It is a mortal sin,
(c) Beauty comes from the soul.
(d) It is transcendent.

9. How long after they were married do the Mason's start having trouble?
(a) Over a year.
(b) When the new servants quit.
(c) Less than a month.
(d) After their honeymoon.

10. How long has Annette been a widow?
(a) For ten years.
(b) Nearly five years.
(c) For one year.
(d) Barely two years.

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

12. What does Mr. Mason say the servants can smell?
(a) The new flowers in the garden.
(b) The rum on his wife's breath.
(c) The hurricane winds as they approach the island.
(d) Money.

13. What does Antoinette recognize about her mother when she first goes to visit her after moving from Coulibri Estate?
(a) Her beautiful smile.
(b) Her eyes.
(c) Her hair and dress.
(d) The perfume she wears.

14. What does Antoinette remember when she is speaking with the nun after her dream?
(a) She likes to eat cake.
(b) She wants to move to England.
(c) She misses Christophene.
(d) That her mother is dead.

15. What becomes of Pierre after the family leaves Coulibri Estate?
(a) He goes to school in England.
(b) He is cured from his childhood illness.
(c) He dies from injuries received in a fire.
(d) He becomes a magistrate in the West Indies.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the story, how do the newly freed slaves behave towards their former white owners?

2. How many times has Antoinette had the dream when she describes it so vividly in Part One?

3. What does Antoinette wear in her dream?

4. What does Antoinette remember that her mother hated?

5. What does Antoinette call her step-father one night?

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