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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ava say Marigold Pie willed to her when she died, in Chapter 26?
(a) Nathaniel’s journal
(b) Her car
(c) Her house
(d) All of her belongings

2. The house that Jack Griffith has bought in Chapter 27 is the lithe white house that once belonged to whom?
(a) Jeremiah Flannery
(b) Constance Quakenbush
(c) The caretakers of the town reservoir
(d) Nathaniel Sorrows

3. What kind of beauty does Cardigan tell Ava she has in Chapter 15?
(a) Whimsical beauty
(b) Dark beauty
(c) Angelic beauty
(d) Fragile beauty

4. When Ava attempts to find an exit to Marigold Pie’s home, she enters a room filled with what dead animals in Chapter 23?
(a) Birds
(b) Cats
(c) Bats
(d) Dogs

5. The birds that Ava finds in the third floor of her home in Chapter 26 are doves that have bred with what kind of birds?
(a) Owls
(b) Eagles
(c) Sparrows
(d) Crows

6. Who is Ava Lavender’s father in The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender?
(a) Jack Griffith
(b) Connor Lavender
(c) Barnaby Callahoo
(d) William Peyton

7. Who asks Ava on the rooftop in Chapter 26, “It is all right, now? Yes?”
(a) Henry
(b) Viviane
(c) Fatima
(d) Gabe

8. What does Viviane note that there are none of in Jack’s home in Chapter 22?
(a) Kitchen appliances
(b) Telephones
(c) Televisions
(d) Family photos

9. What is the date of the journal entry that concludes Chapter 17?
(a) May 26, 1959
(b) May 15, 1959
(c) September 12, 1955
(d) March 1, 1904

10. What is Henry doing when Viviane encounters him in Jack’s home in Chapter 22?
(a) Sculpting a model
(b) Taking a bath
(c) Screaming and crying
(d) Drawing a map

11. What breed of dog is Trouver said to be in Chapter 14?
(a) Saint Bernard
(b) Great Pyrenees
(c) German Shepherd
(d) Great Dane

12. When Jack solicits Viviane for them to try again, she cannot keep whose image from creeping into her mind in Chapter 22?
(a) Gabe’s
(b) Ava’s
(c) Dublin’s
(d) Emilienne’s

13. What does Viviane begin doing after she has an epiphany about Jack while putting Henry and Trouver into the truck in Chapter 22?
(a) Laughing
(b) Singing
(c) Screaming
(d) Sobbing

14. In Chapter 18, Gabe begins taking work in other neighborhoods and asks out a waitress from what location?
(a) New York, New York
(b) Oxford, Mississippi
(c) Little Rock, Arkansas
(d) Bremen, Maine

15. Whom has Ava developed an attraction to in the beginning of Chapter 17?
(a) Nathaniel Sorrows
(b) Jeremiah Flannery
(c) William Peyton
(d) John Griffith

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nathaniel do to Ava after raping her in Chapter 23?

2. Who discovers that Emilienne has passed away in Chapter 26?

3. What does Ava describe hanging over the mantle in Marigold Pie’s home in Chapter 23?

4. Where does the apparition lead Ava during her feverish fit in Chapter 17?

5. What is the midsummer festival called in Greece, according to the narrator in Chapter 19?

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