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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the tourist joke Faustin told about the English?
(a) "Wjp throws up the French food with regularity?"
(b) "Who pays exorbitant prices without blinking an eyelash?"
(c) "What changes from the color of a dead rat to the color of a dead lobster in three hours?"
(d) "Who is so prim and proper they are shocked by the dress of the Provencal peasants?"

2. Where is the heating system located?
(a) in the courtyard
(b) behind the house
(c) in what used to be the donkey dormitory
(d) beside the pool

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 sink in the kitchen overflows.
(d) The carpet-layer puts a screw through the hot-water pipe.

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

5. What did the Mayles hope the sanitation men would do with the tip they gave them?
(a) donate it to a local charity
(b) go out and have a glorious, messy meal and have someone else clear up
(c) give it to the church on Christmas
(d) buy Christmas presents for their families with it

6. Who delivered the opening speech?
(a) the mayor
(b) the president of the society
(c) the Mayles' friend
(d) a local priest

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

8. Who is summoned to fix the washed out drive?
(a) Faustin
(b) Massot
(c) Claude
(d) Sanchez

9. What is the name of the carpet-layer?
(a) Jean -Pierre
(b) Paul -Pierre
(c) Marc-Antoine
(d) Maurice-Lucien

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

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

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

13. Why can't the meter reader read the Mayles' meter?
(a) Bees have stored their honey there.
(b) Hornets have nested there.
(c) An ant colony has made a nest there.
(d) The Mistral damaged the meter.

14. What is the name of the bakery they visit in Cavaillon?
(a) Chez Auzet
(b) Pain Divin
(c) Maison du Pain
(d) Chez Gu

15. What had some friends of the Mayles seen in their hotel room which frightened them?
(a) a large spider
(b) a bat
(c) a rat
(d) a falcon

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to the elegant gathering when Vivaldi was replaced by Little Richard?

2. What does Menicucci remind Peter to do?

3. When did the Mayles leave the dinner?

4. What were the local friends of the Mayles recovering from in September?

5. What is the main event of Christmas in Provence?

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