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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What picture in the calendar he gives Peter does the postman show him?
(a) a picture of the the goat race Peter had witnessed
(b) a picture of the national forest
(c) a girl wearing two coconut shells
(d) a picture of the village under snow

3. Where are the grapes weighed and tested for alcoholic content?
(a) Maubec
(b) Bonnieux
(c) Lubryon
(d) Goult

4. Who is Monsieur Aude?
(a) a stone sculptor
(b) an iron artist
(c) a local chef
(d) a local painter

5. What cafe do the Mayles eat at in November?
(a) the cafe in Le Paradou
(b) the cafe in Cavaillon
(c) the cafe in Buoux
(d) the cafe in Bonnieux

6. What year does Massot feel would be the ideal year to sell his home?
(a) 1993
(b) 1994
(c) 1992
(d) 1995

7. Where did Peter's friend who was to be honored live?
(a) next door
(b) high in the Lubryon mountains
(c) in a nearby village
(d) deep in the Cote du Rhone country

8. What did Massot say to Peter that was uncharacteristic of him?
(a) "Nature is wearing her prettiest clothes".
(b) " I think I'll give a big party".
(c) "I'll never cook a fox again".
(d) "I don't hate the Germans anymore".

9. Whom did Peter call when there was a problem with the house or property?
(a) Menicucci
(b) Faustin
(c) Christian
(d) Tony

10. When the Mayles finally see Santa Claus what is he doing?
(a) taking children on his lap
(b) receiving Christmas wish lists from the children
(c) smoking
(d) giving out tiny token presents

11. Where do the Mayles go to search for evidence of Christmas?
(a) Aix
(b) the Cote d'Azur
(c) Bonnieux
(d) Cavaillon

12. What was the weather like in October?
(a) It was extremely hot and humid.
(b) The days were warm enough for swimming , the nigths cool enough for a fire.
(c) It snowed.
(d) It was bitterly cold.

13. Where had Peter's friend rented a house?
(a) in Bonnieux
(b) near Marseilles
(c) a few kilometers from St. Tropez
(d) in Nimes

14. When did the Mayles leave the dinner?
(a) just before dawn
(b) around eleven o'clock
(c) sometime after one o'clock in the morning
(d) midnight

15. What surprise gift do the Mayles receive?
(a) a cap full of mushrooms complete with a recipe for preparing them
(b) a box of home-made preserves
(c) some canned tomatoes
(d) a round of the local cheese and a loaf of delicious peasant bread

Short Answer Questions

1. What idea did Madame Mayle have for getting the work on the house done before Christmas?

2. Why can't the meter reader read the Mayles' meter?

3. What did Massot find that proved to him that Germans had camped in the park?

4. What do Faustin, his wife and daughters use to harvest the table grapes?

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

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