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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 22-30.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Clement earn extra money?
(a) As a blacksmith.
(b) Playing the fiddle at dances.
(c) Making bows.
(d) Selling his flutes.

2. What year does Narcisse decide to join the war effort?
(a) 1861.
(b) 1863.
(c) 1867.
(d) 1862.

3. In Chapter 10, who does Philomene glimpse as missing from the family in the future?
(a) Gerant.
(b) Gerasime and Palmire.
(c) Gerasime and Gerant.
(d) Elisabeth and Palmire.

4. What upsets Oreline about her aunt's actions to get money?
(a) That she sold Palmire's children.
(b) That she is trying to get Oreline to marry a wealthy gambler.
(c) That she is flirting with a man of dubious reputation.
(d) That she won't sell some of the fallow acres.

5. How much money does Narcisse have to pay to be draft exempt?
(a) 2,000 dollars.
(b) 1,000 dollars.
(c) There is no way to buy out of the draft.
(d) 500 dollars.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Clement throw a chair out of the boat?

2. What is Valery Houbre's occupation?

3. Who buys Gerant?

4. Who does Madame Derbanne chastise at the beginning of the book?

5. What is said of Valery Houbre's children?

(see the answer key)

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