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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the women do in preparation for their guests?
(a) Make the home smell nice.
(b) Buy flowers.
(c) Arrange flowers.
(d) Arrange a party tray.

2. Who is Mira Jama?
(a) The storyteller of Saufe.
(b) The author of Suafe's story.
(c) No one.
(d) Saufe's sister.

3. What does Saufe do with the bird feathers?
(a) Assembles them into wings.
(b) Smells them.
(c) Makes blankets from them.
(d) Stuffs them into her pillow.

4. Who does Ardnt carry from the shore and kiss?
(a) Mally.
(b) No one.
(c) Madam Ross.
(d) Malli.

5. In "Tempests", who faints at the passage from Jen Aabel's Bible?
(a) Madam Ross.
(b) Malli.
(c) Ardnt.
(d) Soerensen.

6. How are Martine and Phillipa related?
(a) They're mother and daughter.
(b) They're cousins.
(c) They're sisters.
(d) They're mother and daughter in law.

7. What is Madam Ross's daughter's true love?
(a) Theater.
(b) Singing.
(c) Ardnt.
(d) Traveling.

8. What other character is the character, Herr Soerensen a reflection of in "Tempests"?
(a) Arial.
(b) Madam Ross.
(c) Ardnt.
(d) Prospero.

9. What arrives at Martine and Phillipa's home that upsets the two women greatly?
(a) A tortoise and wine.
(b) Wine and cheese.
(c) Wine and beer.
(d) A tortoise and a hare.

10. Who is Babette?
(a) The two women's maid in waiting.
(b) The two women's step mother.
(c) The two women's cousin.
(d) The two women's pet pig.

11. What does Madam Ross do for a living?
(a) She's a seamstress.
(b) She's a waitress.
(c) Runs her own shop.
(d) Cuts deli meat.

12. What story does Mira Jama hear on the seashore?
(a) Of how ELnazred became such a successful diver.
(b) How pearls became expensive.
(c) Who found the first diamond.
(d) Of how Sauge became Elnazred.

13. What does Madam Ross's daughter do after seeing one of Soerensen's plays?
(a) Goes home.
(b) Auditions for "The Tempest".
(c) Signs up for acting lessons.
(d) Begins to sing.

14. What life does Babette adjust to after hearing the news of the letter in "Babette's Feast"?
(a) To being a servant.
(b) To being a chef.
(c) To being old.
(d) To being Norwegian.

15. What does the General tell Martine at the dinner?
(a) That he loves her.
(b) That he will think of her for the rest of his life.
(c) That he made a mistake.
(d) That he should have chosen her as his wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Saufe live?

2. What does the letter in "Babette's Feast" discuss?

3. Whose work is Soerensen particularly connected to?

4. What do Martine and Phillipa realize at the end of "Babette's Feast"?

5. What does Soerensen operate in "Tempests"?

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