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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through October.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens during the outside buffet at the party?
(a) The guests watch fireworkd.
(b) Some of the guests get food poisoning.
(c) Some local peasants crash the party.
(d) The Mistral begins to blow.

2. What did Peter Mayle plan to buy to protect himself from unwanted guests?
(a) an answering machine
(b) a gun
(c) a book on how to say no
(d) several vicious dogs

3. What had achieved the importance of a minor industry in the Vaucluse in September?
(a) housebreaking
(b) selling books
(c) fishing
(d) outdoor markets

4. Who wanted to go through the crowd of spectators and goats and drivers?
(a) a farner taking his cattle to market
(b) several drunks who refused to get out of the way
(c) a woman in a car looking for the auto route.
(d) a funeral procession

5. How is the road to Aix characterized?
(a) It's a modern highway and a direct route.
(b) It's a narrow, corkscrew road through the mountains.
(c) It's a country road through the farmland.
(d) It's a winding road along the sea coast.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Mayles plan to do with the enclosed courtyard in back of their house?

2. How many bakers are listed in the yellow pages in Cavaillon?

3. How long did the drive to Peter's friend's house take?

4. Who is summoned to fix the washed out drive?

5. What were the pieges a feu that Massot threatened to use against the Germans?

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