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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 49, The Alarm Clock.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Victorine still hate the Germans?
(a) Because they raped her and killed her grandmother.
(b) For what they did to Rose Taillé.
(c) Because they razed the wheat fields one summer and thus many starve that winter.
(d) Because they killed all the Jews in the town.

2. What does Léonie say about the Jews?
(a) That they should have the right to their own beliefs.
(b) That the Jews put Jesus to death and compares them to the evil of Communists.
(c) That they steal children and raise them as Jews.
(d) That they should be respected.

3. Where do Thérèse and Léonie walk?
(a) Into the kitchen.
(b) Into the conservatory.
(c) Upstairs to the library.
(d) Into the living room.

4. What does Thérèse do for her mother?
(a) Takes her tea three times a day.
(b) She makes herself suffer in small ways so that her mother will suffer less in purgatory.
(c) Combs and braids her hair everyday.
(d) Reads to her in bed.

5. What does the person who had a German officer as a lover now do?
(a) Runs a bakery in town.
(b) She is dead; killed by angry townsfolk.
(c) She is in an insane asylum.
(d) She moves to Germany with her lover.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Thérèse do as she walks through the house?

2. Why does Thérèse bang her head against the floor?

3. What is Louis doing in his workshop?

4. Where has Thérèse gone?

5. Who did Thérèse substitute for her mother after her mother dies?

(see the answer key)

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