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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. Where does Edmee regularly volunteer?
(a) The soup kitchen.
(b) The Red Cross.
(c) The elementary school.
(d) The hospital.

2. What does Lea rationalize is over for her?
(a) The days of attracting younger men.
(b) The days of eating spicy food.
(c) The days of drinking champagne.
(d) The days of hosting big parties.

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

4. From the window in which room does Lea watch Cheri leave?
(a) Sunroom.
(b) Parlor.
(c) Bedroom.
(d) Dining room.

5. What color are Lea's eyes?
(a) Blue.
(b) Green.
(c) Brown.
(d) Hazel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Edmee doing when Cheri returns home?

2. What occupies the majority of Edmee's time?

3. What does Cheri recall as he takes a nightly walk?

4. What has Lea been formulating while Cheri slept?

5. What does Madame Peloux determine is Cheri's real problem that makes him so cranky?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Cheri seem to be so unfocused and listless in his life?

2. How do Lea's pearls, once an object of pleasure for Cheri, now repulse him?

3. How many years have passed since the end of CHERI and the beginning of THE LAST OF CHERI?

4. After spending the night together, how do Lea's and Cheri's views of the relationship differ?

5. What is the irony of Madame Peloux's understanding that Cheri needs Lea at this point in his life?

6. How do Lea and Cheri finally reunite?

7. Why is Cheri strangely drawn to the pal?

8. How does Cheri's ennui extend to his personal relationships?

9. Why is Cheri so shocked when he finally visits Lea again?

10. How are Cheri and Edmee at odds over Edmee's charity work?

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