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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which cafe of the Cours Mirabeau is the most memorable?
(a) the Deux Garcons
(b) the Quatre Coins
(c) the Trois Oiseaux
(d) the Deux Jeune Filles

2. Who is the architect?
(a) Claude
(b) Henri
(c) Mastorino
(d) Christian

3. What pets did the family take with them?
(a) a bird and a cat
(b) 2 cats
(c) 2 dogs
(d) a monkey and a parakeet

4. Who is recommended to help the Mayles with their courtyard?
(a) Maurice
(b) Henri
(c) Pierrot
(d) Pierre

5. What did Monsieur Menicucci think was scandalous?
(a) that Truffles are so expensive.
(b) that most Americans don't use a bidet.
(c) that the English people are so prim.
(d) that the government sales tax for caviar is lower than for a screw.

6. Once seated, what does the student do?
(a) orders something to eat
(b) orders a coffe
(c) starts studying
(d) puits his/her sunglasses back on

7. From whom had the Mayles bought their bicycles?
(a) Pierre Lescaut
(b) Maurice Lucien Brun
(c) Eduoard Cunty
(d) Jean Baudelaire

8. A car full of tourists from what country wanted to picnic on the Mayles' property?
(a) Ireland
(b) Germany
(c) England
(d) Switzerland

9. How many dogs accompanied the planting team?
(a) four
(b) three
(c) two
(d) five

10. Who shows up at the Mayles' house just as they are about to sit down to dinner?
(a) Ted and Susan
(b) Tony
(c) Massot
(d) Faustin

11. The ruins of what chateau do they see on their bicycle ride?
(a) the chateau of the Marquis de Sade
(b) the chateau Voltair lived in for a while when he wrote his books
(c) Napoleon Bonaparte's Provencal chateau
(d) the chateau of the richest man ever to have lived in Provence

12. How old is Monsieur Menicucci?
(a) 49
(b) 58
(c) 36
(d) 62

13. How do the students following cafe deportment arrive?
(a) as conspicuously as possible
(b) waving to their friends
(c) carrying books
(d) blowing kisses

14. What do the Mayles do immediately when they return home from their bicycle trip?
(a) They dive into their pool
(b) They wash the dust off their bicycles.
(c) They have a cool drink.
(d) They take a shower.

15. Why does Monsieur Menicucci invite Peter to his house?
(a) to view his wide array of heating devices and to meet his wife
(b) to hear him play the clarinet
(c) to have lunch
(d) to show off his children and their talents

Short Answer Questions

1. What about the insurance agent pleases the Mayles?

2. What had come to a standstill?

3. The January meal the Mayles were invited to started with what food?

4. What do they look for at a junk shop on the way home from Aix?

5. Who arrived to inspect what the planting team had done?

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