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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 21, The Altar | Chapter 22, The Dark Glasses.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to what the girls bring up from the cellar?
(a) The cook is making a white sauce with them.
(b) The gardener kills them.
(c) Henri says it was from when they made wine.
(d) Antoinette tosses it in the fire.

2. What does Madeleine tell her daughter about the daughter's father, Maurice?
(a) That he loves his daughter very much.
(b) That he was a German collaborator.
(c) How Louis and Maurice were friends and how Maurice helped hide the villagers' wine in the cellar.
(d) That he deserts the family and goes to the United States.

3. What are the ladies discussing when the two girls decide to go down to the cellar?
(a) The diagnosis of breast cancer that Antoinette has just received.
(b) Who is likely to be the next woman to wed.
(c) If their husbands really like being tied down in marriage.
(d) Whether there is going to be a major war.

4. The novel begins with the description of what?
(a) The barn.
(b) A nightmare.
(c) The farm house.
(d) Michael's favorite horse.

5. Who was willing to take on a German officer as a lover?
(a) Rose.
(b) Marie.
(c) Antoinette.
(d) One of the village girls who came to help with chores at the house was billeted in the back bedroom.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Léonie afraid of being alone in the room where she is sleeping?

2. What has Léonie been doing while Thérèse has been in the convent?

3. What is one game the girls play?

4. What does Thérèse do when her mother takes her home at a year and a half?

5. How do the girls "doctor" each other?

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