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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. 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.

2. Who is in trouble with the adults?
(a) No one.s
(b) Baptiste and his male friends.
(c) Léonie and Baptiste.
(d) Léonie and Thérèse.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. About what do the hosts and guest sit in the salon and talk?

2. What does Antoinette describe in the letters?

3. With what is Léonie fascinated?

4. Who watches Léonie as she drags the suitcase back and forth in her nightmare?

5. What do the two girls do to save the "dead" baby doll?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How do the two bakeries mentioned in "The Bread Basket" represent the same situation as that of Léonie and Thérèse?

3. What clues in the chapter "The Biscuit Tin" suggest that Thérèse is a product of Antoinette being raped by a German Nazi soldier?

4. What in "The Ivory Ring" chapter foreshadows Thérèse's despondency about her mother's death and her father transferring his affection to Madeleine?

5. What is foreshadowed in the chapter "The Baby Book"?

6. How do Therèse's actions in this chapter, "The Fish Kettle," foreshadow her decision to become a nun?

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

8. Do you think either woman is more innocent in the way they interact here in the chapter titled "The Cigarette?"

9. What is the implication of Madeleine scolding Thérèse for upsetting her father on his first day home?

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

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