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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 Adeline notice about Madame La Motte in Chapter 6?
(a) She is taking long walks whenever she can get away.
(b) She is paler than before.
(c) She is treating Adeline more kindly.
(d) She is not talking to Mr. La Motte anymore.

2. How does Adeline feel about the Marquis coming to dinner?
(a) She is cautiously anticipating his visit.
(b) She is excited.
(c) She is indifferent to his company.
(d) She dreads it.

3. Who does the Marquis send to attend to Adeline in Chapter 11?
(a) Mrs. La Motte.
(b) Theodore.
(c) A nurse.
(d) Two women.

4. What does Madame La Motte begin to do for Adeline in Chapter 3?
(a) Sing to her at night.
(b) Read to her.
(c) Knit her a scarf.
(d) Teach her things.

5. What do the La Mottes hear one evening outside the abbey in Chapter 6?
(a) Crying.
(b) Yelling.
(c) Thunder.
(d) Hoofbeats.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does La Motte tell his servant to buy on his second trip to the town?

2. What do the Marquis and Adeline attend in Chapter 11?

3. What do Madame La Motte and her son argue about at breakfast?

4. What city are the La Mottes leaving at the beginning of the novel?

5. Where does La Motte's party stop to spend the night after traveling all day?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Adeline tell the La Mottes happened to her when she was seven and twelve years old?

2. What does Theodore hear Adeline saying in the woods in Chapter 7? What does Theodore warn Adeline about?

3. Where is Adeline taken at the beginning of Chapter 11? What is she told while there?

4. What does Adeline beg La Motte for in Chapter 9?

5. What happens when La Motte goes to ask directions at a house outside of Paris?

6. How does La Motte's behavior change after he and his household settle in at the abbey? How does Madame La Motte explain the change in his personality?

7. Who arrives at the abbey on a stormy night in Chapter 6?

8. Why is Madame La Motte saddened at the beginning of Chapter 1?

9. Why does Adeline go to the La Mottes in distress in Chapter 10?

10. What does Louis try to get from Adeline before leaving to rejoin his regiment? How does she respond?

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