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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. Who suffers the most from Adrien's clumsiness?
(a) Marguerite.
(b) M. Pujol.
(c) Charlotte.
(d) Madeleine.

2. The mayor is what kind of father?
(a) Patient.
(b) Indulgent.
(c) Neglectful.
(d) Tempermental.

3. How does the matron of the hospital feel about M. Jouy?
(a) She feels disgusted.
(b) She feels sorry for the insane man.
(c) She feels confused about him.
(d) She feels that he may have a bit of sanity left in him.

4. What is the name of the hospital M. Pujol has gone to?
(a) The Institute of Mental Health and Life.
(b) The Hospital for the Insane and Unstable.
(c) The Institute for the Study of Abherrant Behaviors and Conditions.
(d) The Hospital for the Weak and Feeble.

5. Why can Madeleine not peel the fruit M. Pujol gives her?
(a) Her hands are not nimble enough.
(b) Her teeth are too brittle.
(c) She lacks the proper tool.
(d) She does not know how.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the widow see tangled together beneath the bushes?

2. What does M. Pujol plan on doing after he leaves the widow and the gypsies?

3. Why does Madeline doubt the photograph she sees of herself paddling M. Pujol?

4. Who does Mother use to break M. Jouy out of the hospital?

5. What is the name of M. Pujol's past love who attended sixteen of his performances?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does M. Pujol feel about the people showering his caravan with gravel?

2. How does the widow feel when she sees Madeleine and Adrien tangled together beneath the bushes?

3. List some of the rules Beatrice made up for playing "The Madeleine Game."

4. For what reasons does Adrien want to change the name of M. Pujol's photograph from Stupefaction to Revulsion?

5. Who is Hugh?

6. Why do Madeleine and Adrien travel to the Institute for the Study of Aberrant Behaviors and Conditions? Who is there?

7. Why does Madeleine gather gravel to drop on top of M. Pujol's caravan?

8. How do Sophie and Beatrice communicate in code while in church?

9. Why does Madeleine's sleeping form begin to develop bruises?

10. Why does M. Pujol tell Madeleine the story of the widow and the carp?

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