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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many bakers are listed in the yellow pages in Cavaillon?
(a) nineteen
(b) twenty
(c) seventeen
(d) fourteen

2. 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 goats that the local priest had blessed
(d) The ones who made the most droppings before the race.

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

4. Who wrote the Provencal song they sang after the speeches?
(a) Maurice Ravel
(b) Frederic Mistral
(c) Claude Debussy
(d) Antoine Mouchou

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the postman relate about his friend?

3. What is the alcoholic content of the grapes?

4. Why was the Mayles' friend looking ill at ease when they found him at the dinner?

5. What takes place at the Mayles' house in August?

Short Essay Questions

1. What frightened friends of the Mayles who were staying at a nearby hotel?

2. What is the irony of Christmas Day to the Mayles?

3. Describe the man Peter meets in the forest.

4. What English Christmas festivities did the Mayles miss?

5. Describe the woman who advises the Mayles about olive oil.

6. Describe the dinner the Mayles are invited to in November.

7. Who is Roger and what happens to him?

8. What are the effects of the night storm that hits Lubyron in August?

9. Why did the grapes on the Mayles' land have to be picked?

10. List the locals who come to the Mayles for Christmas tips and tell what they bring as gifts

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