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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the main event of Christmas in Provence?
(a) the parties
(b) the food
(c) the church services
(d) the exchange of presents

2. How many goats and drivers took part in the goat race?
(a) 6
(b) 8
(c) 10
(d) 12

3. How does the carpet get soaked?
(a) A bucket of water is accidently over-turned.
(b) There is another storm and a leak in the roof.
(c) The carpet-layer puts a screw through the hot-water pipe.
(d) The sink in the kitchen overflows.

4. What did Massot plan to possibly do when he retired and sold his home?
(a) buy a little bar-tabac in Cavaillon
(b) get married
(c) move to Paris
(d) viksit America

5. What is the alcoholic content of the grapes?
(a) 10.93 percent
(b) 11.32 percent
(c) 12.88 percent
(d) 12.32 percent

6. How did the hunters find a lost dog?
(a) They left a scrap of sacking or a cushion with the kennel scent on it in the woods.
(b) They had a special dog whistle.
(c) They went out and called their names.
(d) They waited til the dog found their truck or car.

7. What was the hall officially called?
(a) the Salle des Honneurs
(b) the Salle des Fetes
(c) the Salle du Prestige
(d) the Salle des Dignitaires

8. What do the people of Provence collect in baskets in the woods?
(a) nuts
(b) wild flowers
(c) mushrooms
(d) berries

9. Which goats were supposed to do well in the race?
(a) the youngest goats
(b) the goats who had a special diet of herbs
(c) The ones who made the most droppings before the race.
(d) the goats that the local priest had blessed

10. How long did the drive to Peter's friend's house take?
(a) two and a half hours
(b) three hours
(c) more than four hours
(d) one hour

11. The Mayles are surprised at the French fondness for what?
(a) fast food
(b) guns
(c) American music
(d) Shakespeare

12. Who is the Mayles' guest who is disaster-prone?
(a) Bennett
(b) Tony
(c) Lydia
(d) Pierre

13. Who is rumored to have bought a house in Provence?
(a) Leslie Caron
(b) Doris Day
(c) Ringo Star
(d) Brigitte Bardot

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

15. What are the "Sayings of August?"
(a) Faustin's statements about the forest fire near Grasse
(b) folk sayings of the Provencal peasants
(c) Statements made by mystified, tightfisted or apologetic visitors.
(d) Statements made by Menicucci and his men about the work they had to do.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did the Mayles hope the sanitation men would do with the tip they gave them?

3. Who wrote the Provencal song they sang after the speeches?

4. What do the sanitation men mind that is left for them to clean up?

5. Where do the Mayles go to search for evidence of Christmas?

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