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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Newman learn that Valentin will not survive his wounds?
(a) At the train station.
(b) In bed, while he is asleep.
(c) By reading it in the paper.
(d) When he sees Valentin for himself.

2. What role does Claire have in the church services at her convent?
(a) She is in the choir.
(b) She passes around the collection plate.
(c) She leads the service.
(d) She cleans the pews.

3. What surprises Valentin about the invitation his family sends out for Newman and Claire's engagement party?
(a) It isn't on their usual stationery.
(b) It leaves off Newman's full name.
(c) It doesn't have the family crest on it.
(d) It doesn't mention that an American will be there as the entertainment.

4. What members of her family has Claire refused to see?
(a) Only her mother.
(b) Only her brothers.
(c) Only Newman.
(d) All of them.

5. What indicates to the wounded Valentin that something is wrong with Newman?
(a) He overhears Newman talking to a messenger.
(b) He catches Newman crying when he thinks no one is looking.
(c) Nothing in particular; he can just tell.
(d) He overhears Newman talking to a reporter.

6. What does Newman ask when Mrs. Bread requests to know more about Valentin's last hours?
(a) They meet in private later.
(b) To give him some time before he answers.
(c) She should never ask him again.
(d) She should ask Claire's mother instead.

7. Who first meets Newman when he has come to speak with Claire's mother and brother, supposedly for the last time?
(a) Tristam.
(b) Mrs. Bread.
(c) Mrs. Tristam.
(d) Noemie.

8. Who tells Newman during the opera that she is terribly bored with her husband?
(a) Mrs. Tristam.
(b) Urbain's wife.
(c) Noemie.
(d) Claire.

9. What is Urbain unhappy about at the engagement party?
(a) The way his wife is behaving.
(b) The fact that his best friend didn't show up.
(c) Claire's dress.
(d) Newman's own happiness.

10. What does Newman ask Valentin to do while they are at the opera?
(a) Stop talking during the show.
(b) Stop looking so much through his binoculars.
(c) Get him another glass of wine.
(d) Forget Noemie.

11. What does Noemie think the duel will do?
(a) Prove that Claire really isn't worth fighting over.
(b) Show how silly such things are.
(c) Prove that Newman isn't as honorable as he acts.
(d) Increase her importance.

12. What does Newman suggest to Valentin as a way for him to clear his head of Noemie?
(a) To take a vacation.
(b) All of these answers are correct.
(c) To start dating someone else.
(d) To go to America and get a job in a bank.

13. How does Mrs. Bread feel about Claire?
(a) Like she's her own daughter.
(b) Like she's the girl she's been waiting so long to come for Newman.
(c) She doesn't know her well enough to have an opinion.
(d) Like she's not good enough for her beloved Newman.

14. What makes Mrs. Bread decide to tell what he knows about how Claire's father died?
(a) The fact that her doing so was Valentin's dying wish.
(b) Newman's own mournful face.
(c) The guilt she's carried for many years.
(d) Claire's pleas.

15. Where does Newman find Noemie and her dad after she has disappeared?
(a) An open air market.
(b) The Louvre.
(c) The Occidental Club.
(d) The Cafe de la Patrie.

Short Answer Questions

1. What piece of possible evidence does Mrs. Bread have about how Claire's father died?

2. Who wants Newman to take her to the Bal Bullier?

3. Who helps to arrange the duel?

4. How do Claire's brother and mother feel about her decision to become a nun?

5. Who insists that Newman be allowed in visit the injured Valentin?

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