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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 39, The Onyx Ashtray | Chapter 40, The Fish Kettle.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Léonie afraid of being alone in the room where she is sleeping?
(a) Because it is pitch black inside the windowless room.
(b) She knows her great-grandmother dies in this room.
(c) The branch outside the window taps on the glass in the wind.
(d) She hears people chanting and crying.

2. Why does Baptiste supposedly despise Thérèse?
(a) Because he hates her father.
(b) For listening to him and Léonie making love many years ago.
(c) Because she rejects his marriage proposal many years ago.
(d) For encouraging him to marry Léonie.

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

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

5. Of what is Antionette's mouth full?
(a) Torn-up letters and broken glass.
(b) Lentils.
(c) Chocolate cake.
(d) Chewing gum.

Short Answer Questions

1. What problem does Léonie try to resolve?

2. What does Madeleine discourage Léonie from doing?

3. What does Antoinette describe in the letters?

4. What does Victorine tell Léonie?

5. What does Léonie enjoy?

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