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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 25, The Pillows | Chapter 26, The Statue of the Virgin.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With what is Léonie fascinated?
(a) The way Thérèse is dressed.
(b) The way Baptiste cannot keep his eyes off Thérèse.
(c) With how sharp the kitchen knives are.
(d) The family photographs.

2. What does Antoinette describe in the letters?
(a) How Thérèse is such a quiet baby.
(b) How Léonie was always jealous of Thérèse.
(c) How Thérèse's father is having an affair.
(d) How Rose Taillé took the baby in because she lost her own baby the week before.

3. What do the girls bring up from the cellar?
(a) Two baby mice.
(b) An old wine bottle.
(c) Red velvet shoe.
(d) Three garlic cloves for the cook.

4. What happens to what the girls bring up from the cellar?
(a) The cook is making a white sauce with them.
(b) The gardener kills them.
(c) Antoinette tosses it in the fire.
(d) Henri says it was from when they made wine.

5. What are the ladies discussing when the two girls decide to go down to the cellar?
(a) The diagnosis of breast cancer that Antoinette has just received.
(b) If their husbands really like being tied down in marriage.
(c) Whether there is going to be a major war.
(d) Who is likely to be the next woman to wed.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was willing to take on a German officer as a lover?

2. Why doesn't Thérèse like the dressing room?

3. What does Léonie still use?

4. What does Léonie enjoy?

5. What does Léonie dream in the nightmare at the beginning of Chapter 18?

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