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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About what has Léonie discouraged her daughters?
(a) Becoming a nun.
(b) Spending time in the back room.
(c) Getting married too young.
(d) Going to the woods alone.

2. Who is juggling oranges?
(a) Léonie.
(b) Louis.
(c) Baptiste.
(d) Thérèse.

3. Who puts on a show of having a vision for the villagers?
(a) Léonie.
(b) Thérèse.
(c) Madeleine.
(d) Victorine.

4. Who is skeptical about Thérèse's vision?
(a) The curé.
(b) Madeleine.
(c) The bishop.
(d) Louis.

5. At whom is Baptiste angry?
(a) At the Germans for killing his father.
(b) At Léonie for not listening to him.
(c) At the Priest for embarrassing him.
(d) At Madeleine for forbiding Léonie to talk to him.

6. How is Thérèse in competition with Madeleine?
(a) In who can cook the best goose.
(b) In who can disgrace the Priest worse.
(c) She is in competition with Léonie.
(d) In gaining her father's attention.

7. For what does Madeleine scold Thérèse?
(a) For upsetting her father on his first day home.
(b) For inviting Baptiste to dinner.
(c) For burning the fish soup.
(d) For letting her cousin read Antoinette's letter.

8. For what is Léonie searching when she moves forward through the room?
(a) Nothing,
(b) Signs that Thérèse is returning.
(c) Letters to use at the enquiry.
(d) Words for her story.

9. Over what does Léonie feel cowardly?
(a) Giving Thérèse a room to live in.
(b) The vandalism at the gravesite.
(c) Confronting her mother about who her father is.
(d) Telling Thérèse off.

10. What does Madeleine discourage Léonie from doing?
(a) Disobeying her uncle.
(b) Being mean to her cousin.
(c) Associating with those of a lower social standing.
(d) Being friendly with Baptiste.

11. Who keeps the central portion of the Quimper bowl?
(a) Rose.
(b) Léonie.
(c) Thérèse.
(d) Victorine.

12. What does Léonie want?
(a) Thérèse to come back.
(b) A cigarette and breakfast.
(c) Baptiste to leave her for a few days.
(d) Coffee.

13. What does Victorine tell Léonie?
(a) How her mother came to marry an Englishman.
(b) That Rose is actually Thérèse's mother.
(c) The possibility of the bones belonging to Jews killed by the Nazis.
(d) Why Louis intends to move to India.

14. Of what does Léonie accuse Thérèse?
(a) Having cheated Léonie out of half of Louis's estate.
(b) Having lied about her visions so many years ago.
(c) Having slept with Baptiste when they were young.
(d) Having lied about Léonie's paternity.

15. What does Léonie wish would break?
(a) The clock that keeps ticking too loudly on the mantel.
(b) Thérèse's best necklace.
(c) A porcelain vase.
(d) Thérèse's heart.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Madeleine think the priest wants to have hushed up?

2. What does Thérèse scream as she runs out of the church?

3. What does Baptiste do?

4. What doesn't Léonie like?

5. What are the workmen doing when they find a shallow grave with a heap of bones?

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