Daughters of the House Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one game the girls play?
(a) Chess.
(b) All for Love.
(c) Jumprope.
(d) Checkers.

2. What has Léonie pretended for 20 years?
(a) That Thérèse would come and they could be together again.
(b) That Baptiste is the man she loves.
(c) That the house belongs to her.
(d) That Thérèse is dead.

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

4. What does Léonie imagine she will do?
(a) Learn how to knit.
(b) Become like Florence Nightingale and help sick people.
(c) Become a doctor and save people from cancer.
(d) She will make up her own rules when she is an adult.

5. Who is staring angrily at Thérèse as the front door opens?
(a) Léonie.
(b) Henri.
(c) No one.
(d) Antionette.

6. Who claims to see the devil hiding behind the curtains?
(a) Léonie.
(b) Louis.
(c) Baptiste.
(d) Thérèse.

7. What happens after Thérèse settles in to her new home?
(a) She never goes out of her room.
(b) She is clingy and cries if her mother leaves the room, even for a moment.
(c) She is independent.
(d) She becomes an angel in behavior.

8. What does Léonie enjoy?
(a) The art of defecating.
(b) Torturing kittens.
(c) Going to neighbor's houses for dinner.
(d) Playing on the apple tree swing.

9. Who relishes her breakfast the next morning though Louis and Thérèse refuse to eat?
(a) Madeleine.
(b) Henri.
(c) Léonie.
(d) Baptiste.

10. What do the girls do after being exhausted from fighting?
(a) Have a sexual encounter.
(b) Go downstairs for hot chocolate.
(c) Go play with the kittens in the barn.
(d) Go to sleep.

11. About what do Léonie and Thérèse argue?
(a) If French people are smarter than English people.
(b) Why horses don't lie down to sleep.
(c) French and English food.
(d) Whether it is right to still be angry with German collaborators.

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

13. How is the farmhouse described?
(a) As a safe haven.
(b) As common.
(c) As changeable.
(d) As a rickety old building.

14. Of what is Thérèse's bag full?
(a) Books about Jewish history and customs.
(b) Knitting wool.
(c) Clothing.
(d) Money.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Thérèse do when her mother takes her home at a year and a half?

2. When do Léonie and Thérèse meet?

3. How does Thérèse feel in her clothes?

4. Why does Thérèse refuse to eat?

5. Why does Madeleine defend Léonie's action of going down to the cellar?

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