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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Lea doing when Cheri awakens the next morning?
(a) Taking a bath.
(b) Dressing.
(c) Writing at her desk.
(d) Eating breakfast.

2. What occupies the majority of Edmee's time?
(a) Charity projects.
(b) Sleeping.
(c) Shopping.
(d) Traveling.

3. What does Cheri notice about Edmee?
(a) She is even more beautiful than the day he married her.
(b) She is morose.
(c) She is pregnant.
(d) She has become attracted to another man.

4. What does Cheri recall as he takes a nightly walk?
(a) World War I.
(b) Lea's pearls.
(c) His childhood home.
(d) Desmond's parties.

5. To whom has Edmee become attracted?
(a) Desmond.
(b) Dr. Boulanger.
(c) Dr. Arnaud.
(d) Patron.

6. How does Desmond perceive Cheri to be now?
(a) Petulant.
(b) Exuberant.
(c) Happy.
(d) Curious.

7. About whom does Cheri occasionally think?
(a) Desmond.
(b) Lea.
(c) The Pal.
(d) Lili.

8. In what season of the year does Cheri leave Lea for the last time?
(a) Winter.
(b) Summer.
(c) Spring.
(d) Fall.

9. What type of behavior does Edmee exhibit at the luncheon that annoys Cheri?
(a) Sullen.
(b) Flirtatious.
(c) Vicarious.
(d) Obsequious.

10. What is the literary technique in which Lea's actions do not support her statements about her advancing age?
(a) Irony.
(b) Simile.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Foreshadowing.

11. What does Cheri buy to take the edge off his boredom?
(a) A cigar store.
(b) A car.
(c) A race horse.
(d) A winery.

12. Who does Cheri meet in a bar a couple weeks after seeing Lea again?
(a) Patron.
(b) The Pal.
(c) Desmond.
(d) Lea.

13. Where does Cheri sometimes visit Edmee?
(a) The hair salon.
(b) The hospital.
(c) The library.
(d) The museum.

14. What is the setting for Chapter 1 of THE LAST OF CHERI?
(a) Madame Peloux's garden.
(b) Lea's home.
(c) Cheri and Edmee's home.
(d) Desmond's apartment.

15. How many years has it been since Cheri has seen Lea?
(a) Five.
(b) Ten.
(c) Three.
(d) Seven.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Edmee do while Cheri sleeps?

2. In order to fill her time, Lea toys with the idea of opening a shop or ____________.

3. How does Cheri know that Edmee is going to bed?

4. What are Cheri's feelings about Lea in the morning light?

5. From the window in which room does Lea watch Cheri leave?

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