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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About what do the hosts and guest sit in the salon and talk?
(a) Parties.
(b) Politics.
(c) Religion.
(d) Farming.

2. Why does Madeleine defend Léonie's action of going down to the cellar?
(a) Because Léonie is her daughter.
(b) She tells Antoinette that Léonie was just curious because of a story Madeleine has told Léonie.
(c) Because Madeleine thinks everyone picks on Léonie.
(d) Because Madeleine asks Léonie to go get some wine from the cellar.

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

4. What does Antoinette do under the influence of morphine?
(a) Sleeps as if dead.
(b) Tells Louis that he is not her husband.
(c) Has nightmares and moves in her sleep.
(d) They did not have morphine at that time.

5. Who tells Thérèse to get up off the floor?
(a) Antoinette.
(b) Madeleine.
(c) Baptiste.
(d) Louis.

6. When do Léonie and Thérèse meet?
(a) They never meet after they are babies.
(b) When they have both married.
(c) When they are three.
(d) After years of separation.

7. From where does the chandelier come?
(a) The scion of a noble English family.
(b) Therese's papa brought the chandelier from Italy for her mother.
(c) A glassblower in Germany.
(d) An Irish glass company.

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

9. Why doesn't Thérèse like the dressing room?
(a) Because it smells to strongly of vinegar.
(b) Because she has seen a ghost there.
(c) Because it is where her mother makes her stand when she is bad.
(d) Because Victorine and Antoinette discuss her mother's illness here.

10. What does Thérèse notice as the only things that have changed?
(a) The wallpaper.
(b) The appliances.
(c) The bedspreades.
(d) The curtins.

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

12. What does Thérèse mix that she hasn't done in many years?
(a) The potting soil with clay.
(b) Chocolate cake.
(c) An alcoholic drink.
(d) The dog food.

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

14. What color of eyes does everyone in the area seem to have?
(a) Green.
(b) Blue.
(c) It varies.
(d) Dark brown.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the ladies discussing when the two girls decide to go down to the cellar?

2. Who convinces Thérèse to eat?

3. What has Léonie been doing while Thérèse has been in the convent?

4. Who kept the letters Antoinette sent to her during Thérèse's infancy?

5. About what do Léonie and Thérèse argue?

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