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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. The Mayles are surprised at the French fondness for what?
(a) American music
(b) Shakespeare
(c) guns
(d) fast food
2. When did the Mayles leave the dinner?
(a) sometime after one o'clock in the morning
(b) just before dawn
(c) midnight
(d) around eleven o'clock
3. What do Faustin, his wife and daughters use to harvest the table grapes?
(a) a special kind of knife
(b) their hands
(c) a prining shears
(d) scissors
4. What was the hall officially called?
(a) the Salle des Honneurs
(b) the Salle du Prestige
(c) the Salle des Dignitaires
(d) the Salle des Fetes
5. What happens during the outside buffet at the party?
(a) Some local peasants crash the party.
(b) Some of the guests get food poisoning.
(c) The guests watch fireworkd.
(d) The Mistral begins to blow.
6. What game do the Mayles play at the end of July?
(a) a game of tennis
(b) a game of boules
(c) a game of croquet
(d) a game of golf
7. 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 village under snow
(c) a girl wearing two coconut shells
(d) a picture of the national forest
8. What happened to the elegant gathering when Vivaldi was replaced by Little Richard?
(a) The guests left in a huff.
(b) The elegant guests became loose and danced wildly.
(c) The guests protested.
(d) The guests were shocked.
9. What surprise gift do the Mayles receive?
(a) a box of home-made preserves
(b) a round of the local cheese and a loaf of delicious peasant bread
(c) some canned tomatoes
(d) a cap full of mushrooms complete with a recipe for preparing them
10. What year does Massot feel would be the ideal year to sell his home?
(a) 1992
(b) 1993
(c) 1994
(d) 1995
11. Why can't the meter reader read the Mayles' meter?
(a) The Mistral damaged the meter.
(b) An ant colony has made a nest there.
(c) Bees have stored their honey there.
(d) Hornets have nested there.
12. Who is rumored to have bought a house in Provence?
(a) Brigitte Bardot
(b) Doris Day
(c) Ringo Star
(d) Leslie Caron
13. What idea did Madame Mayle have for getting the work on the house done before Christmas?
(a) threatening to hire other workmen if they didn't finish before Christmas
(b) breaking into tears in front of the workmen at the prospect of not having the work done before Christmas.
(c) Inviting the workmen and their wives to a party the Sunday before Christmas.
(d) offering them more money if they finished before Christmas
14. Who is summoned to fix the washed out drive?
(a) Massot
(b) Claude
(c) Faustin
(d) Sanchez
15. Who were the two uniformed men parked outside the Mayles' house?
(a) chimney sweeps
(b) local firemen
(c) census takers
(d) policemen
Short Answer Questions
1. What were the merchants Peter encountered on his visit to this friend like?
2. What do frugal Frenchmen hate to do?
3. What did Massot say to Peter that was uncharacteristic of him?
4. Where was Peter's friend's house built?
5. When the Mayles finally see Santa Claus what is he doing?
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