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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Where do the newly married Mason's spend their honeymoon?
(a) Spanish Town.
(b) Dominica.
(c) London.
(d) Trinidad.
2. Where is Aunt Cora returning from?
(a) Dominica.
(b) Jamaica.
(c) England.
(d) Trinidad.
3. What becomes of Pierre after the family leaves Coulibri Estate?
(a) He becomes a magistrate in the West Indies.
(b) He is cured from his childhood illness.
(c) He dies from injuries received in a fire.
(d) He goes to school in England.
4. Why do Mr. and Mrs. Mason frequently argue?
(a) Mr. Mason wants to sell Coulibri Estate.
(b) Mrs. Mason does not want to send her children to school.
(c) Mr. Mason is having an affair with a black servant girl.
(d) Mrs. Mason wants to move away from Coulibri Estate.
5. How does Antoinette's demeanor change after she leaves school?
(a) She is excited.
(b) She is a perfect young lady.
(c) She is increasingly confused about the past and present.
(d) She is bitter.
6. What does Antoinette remember when she is speaking with the nun after her dream?
(a) That her mother is dead.
(b) She wants to move to England.
(c) She likes to eat cake.
(d) She misses Christophene.
7. What does Antoinette remember that her mother hated?
(a) Swimming.
(b) Cool shade.
(c) Mr. Mason.
(d) Strong light.
8. Who does Mr. Mason want to hire as servants?
(a) Proper British servants.
(b) Coolies.
(c) Baptiste and Jo Jo.
(d) Mannie and Myra.
9. What else does Antoinette say she dreams in Part One?
(a) That she has a dismal future in store.
(b) That her mother comes to take her home.
(c) That she is entering a beautiful forest.
(d) That she is in hell.
10. In the story, how do the newly freed slaves behave towards their former white owners?
(a) They rebel and kill many of the former slaveowners.
(b) They continue to work happily for their former owners.
(c) They don't care one way or the other about their former owners.
(d) They are discontent and some work grudginly for their former owners.
11. Why does Antoinette resent the nuns' cheerful faces?
(a) They are mocking her.
(b) She believes they are safe.
(c) They are only nice when visitors are there.
(d) She is forced to stay with them.
12. Who goes with Antoinette to visit her mother?
(a) Sandi.
(b) Myra.
(c) Mr. Mason.
(d) Christophine.
13. How long after they were married do the Mason's start having trouble?
(a) When the new servants quit.
(b) Over a year.
(c) After their honeymoon.
(d) Less than a month.
14. How many times has Antoinette had the dream when she describes it so vividly in Part One?
(a) Three times.
(b) This is the first time.
(c) She does not say.
(d) This is the second time.
15. What significant event occurs just before the story begins?
(a) There is a slave uprising in Spanish Town.
(b) Jamaica is a former colony that wins its independence from England.
(c) The slaves are emancipated.
(d) England and France are at war over the ownership of the West Indies.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is wrong with Pierre as a child?
2. What does Mr. Mason say the servants can smell?
3. Who are Godfrey and Sass?
4. How does Antoinette feel about the convent?
5. How does Myra always look?
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