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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 impairment does Rowe Cooper suffer from in the novel?
(a) He is deaf
(b) He is asthmatic
(c) He stutters
(d) He is epileptic

2. In Emilienne’s dream in the beginning of Chapter 26, she is transported back to what location?
(a) France
(b) New York
(c) London
(d) Ireland

3. Emilienne’s brother says to her in Chapter 26, “We were hoping you’d be able to play us a tune on” what?
(a) That flute of yours
(b) That guitar of yours
(c) That piano of yours
(d) That harpsichord of yours

4. Who is sleeping next to Ava when she awakens in the hospital in Chapter 24?
(a) Henry and Jack
(b) Emilienne and Viviane
(c) Fatima and Rene
(d) Gabe and Emilienne

5. What is the date of the journal entry that concludes Chapter 16?
(a) May 15, 1959
(b) April 29, 1959
(c) May 11, 1959
(d) September 12, 1955

Short Answer Questions

1. What “mule-headed” Shakespearean character is described in Chapter 19 as “stumbling from tents of sheer turquoise and white”?

2. Who is hired to replace Emilienne at the bakery in Chapter 25?

3. What kind of beauty does Cardigan tell Ava she has in Chapter 15?

4. Who is described as “fluffing her bright-yellow hair” in Emilienne’s dream in the beginning of Chapter 26?

5. Whom has Ava developed an attraction to in the beginning of Chapter 17?

Short Essay Questions

1. What leads Emilienne to call the police in Chapter 23? Where does she send the police when she calls?

2. What scene does Ava describe Jack Griffith seeing from his balcony in Chapter 27?

3. What is the first “clue” that Emilienne deciphers when she arrives at the home of Marigold Pie in Chapter 24?

4. How does Ava respond to the disbelief of the teenagers at the reservoir in Chapter 15?

5. What incident occurs between Ava and Nathaniel Sorrows in Chapter 17?

6. What project do Gabe and Henry begin working on together in Chapter 14?

7. How is Nathaniel Sorrows’s attack on Ava described in Chapter 23? How is Ava harmed in the attack?

8. What does Ava discover when she attempts to flee the home of Marigold Pie in Chapter 23?

9. How does Emilienne get home from the bakery in Chapter 21? What conversation takes place during this journey?

10. How does Ava come to discover her grandmother’s death in Chapter 26? What does Ava do next?

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