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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 has become of Rachel and Marc in Chapter 37?
(a) They have escaped to Spain.
(b) They have died.
(c) They have escaped to America.
(d) They have been released from the camps.

2. Who is awaiting Isabelle and Gaetan with three pilots in Chapter 30?
(a) Madame Babineau.
(b) Madame Vizniak.
(c) Captain Beck.
(d) Edith Cavell.

3. Who is Isabelle's contact in her mission of transporting the airmen in Chapter 21?
(a) Henri.
(b) Ian.
(c) Didier.
(d) Von Richter.

4. Where is Isabelle when Gaetan arrives in Chapter 38?
(a) At Rachel's home.
(b) The backyard.
(c) The cathedral.
(d) The attic.

5. Whom does the black ribbon on the apple tree signify?
(a) Beck.
(b) Julien.
(c) Von Richter.
(d) Gaetan.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who claims to have shot Beck in the chest in Chapter 25?

2. What illness does Vianne say her baby may have when the Germans come to her home in Chapter 27?

3. How did Sophie die, according to the narrative in Chapter 39?

4. Whose card does Isabelle slip up her sleeve in Chapter 21?

5. What does Von Richter do to Vianne in the end of Chapter 33?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the theme of loss developed in Chapter 38?

2. How does Isabelle describe her time at the concentration camp in Chapter 38?

3. Why is Isabelle unable to help her neighbors in Chapter 23?

4. Why does Vianne concede to having sex with Von Richter?

5. How is the theme of war developed in Chapter 29?

6. How is the theme of war developed further in Chapter 33?

7. What is represented symbolically by Julien's sacrifice for his daughter in Chapter 34?

8. How is the theme of loss developed in Chapter 25?

9. What happens to Beck in Chapter 25? How does this event develop the plot of the narrative?

10. How is the theme of womanhood developed in Chapter 32?

(see the answer keys)

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