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This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 141 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

A Simple Heart Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 141 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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 happens to Mme. Aubain's husband?
(a) He dies.
(b) He's sent to jail.
(c) She leaves him.
(d) He leaves her.

2. Who does Félicité hear Liebard talk about from her past?
(a) The farmer she worked for as a girl.
(b) Her sister.
(c) Madame Lehoussais.
(d) Her mother.

3. What color is the wainscoting in the living room?
(a) Green.
(b) Blue.
(c) Red.
(d) White.

4. Where does Félicité first meet Theodore?
(a) At a dance.
(b) At work.
(c) In the park.
(d) In her sister's house.

5. What is peculiar about Félicité's dress?
(a) She wears the same thing all year.
(b) She dresses like a child.
(c) She always wears a bright purple scarf in her hair.
(d) She dresses like a man.

Short Answer Questions

1. What items did Félicité buy for her sister's family?

2. When the family rests in the field, what does Paul do?

3. How does Virginie make the journey to Tocqueville?

4. What is Félicité's relationship to Mme. Aubain?

5. How are the easy chairs in the living room upholstered?

Short Essay Questions

1. To what extent would you say that this story is about Félicité? What do you think Flaubert wanted to say by writing a short story about a person like Félicité?

2. How does Félicité begin to confuse or associate the parrot with the Holy Spirit?

3. How does Félicité understand the Holy Spirit?

4. Why do you think Mme. Aubain shakes slightly when she sees Félicité respond to the news of her nephew's death?

5. How does the narrator describe the woman to whom Paul is engaged?

6. How does Mme. Aubain respond to Félicité's reunion with her lost sister?

7. What is Félicité's final vision and what might it symbolize?

8. How is it significant that the parrot is being eaten by maggots, but Félicité neither knows nor cares?

9. Do you think that Félicité's final vision is religious or delusional? Does it matter?

10. How do Félicité and Mme. Aubain react to Virginie's death?

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