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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 25, The Pillows | Chapter 26, The Statue of the Virgin.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) That he deserts the family and goes to the United States.
(d) How Louis and Maurice were friends and how Maurice helped hide the villagers' wine in the cellar.

2. Why does Madeleine defend Léonie's action of going down to the cellar?
(a) Because Madeleine asks Léonie to go get some wine from the cellar.
(b) Because Léonie is her daughter.
(c) Because Madeleine thinks everyone picks on Léonie.
(d) She tells Antoinette that Léonie was just curious because of a story Madeleine has told Léonie.

3. Why has Thérèse come to the farmhouse?
(a) She is planning to sell the farmhouse.
(b) She feels homesick.
(c) She hopes to forgive Léonie.
(d) She is thinking of leaving the monastery and that there is some unfinished business to which she must attend.

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

5. What does Léonie dream in the nightmare at the beginning of Chapter 18?
(a) That she is about to be buried alive in the cellar.
(b) That Madeleine's head is rolling down the cellar steps.
(c) That Thérèse nails Léonie to a cross.
(d) That Antoinette's red suitcase is tied up in scarlet cloth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Antoinette do under the influence of morphine?

2. What does the new priest do when he arrives in the town near the farmhouse?

3. How long has it been since Thérèse had left the monastery?

4. What does Léonie say about the Jews?

5. From where does the chandelier come?

(see the answer key)

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