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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The novel begins with the description of what?
(a) The farm house.
(b) Michael's favorite horse.
(c) A nightmare.
(d) The barn.

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

3. Why does Thérèse refuse to eat?
(a) Because there is a famine at the time.
(b) Because she feels ugly and overweight.
(c) Because her father is not there.
(d) Because her mother is not eating.

4. What does Léonie do with Thérèse's things?
(a) Messes them up.
(b) Searches through them.
(c) Unpacks them.
(d) Makes Thérèse carry them to her room.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is in trouble with the adults?

2. When Léonie awakens, what does she realize?

3. Who has died at the beginning of Chapter 22?

4. What does the person who had a German officer as a lover now do?

5. What does Baptiste do to gain the attention of the two girls?

Short Essay Questions

1. In the chapter "The Green Scarf," how does the celebration in the woods contrast to that of organized religion?

2. What is symbolized by Léonie's lying in the woods and undressing to have sex with Baptiste?

3. In an agreement to exchange secrets, Thérèse allows Léonie to read one of Thérèse's letters from Antoinette to her older sister in the convent. Do you think Thérèse is actually revealing a secret?

4. What do you think is the significance of Thérèse's threat of "the silent treatment" to Léonie?

5. What so you think is the symbolism attached to Thérèse jumping free of her burning clothes?

6. Describe the first few minutes of Thérèse and Léonie's time together as described in "The Chandelier."

7. What hint is there in the chapter, "The Cellar Key," that something about the cellar upsets Antoinette?

8. In the chapter, "The Oranges," what problem do you think Léonie is really trying to resolve when she is juggling the oranges or thinking of the magpies?

9. Describe the vision experience that Thérèse has in this chapter.

10. What does Thérèse notice in the graveyard in the chapter "The Doorbell"?

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