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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 39, The Onyx Ashtray | Chapter 40, The Fish Kettle.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Léonie do after Louis leaves the bathroom?
(a) Goes into the bathroom and takes a shower.
(b) Goes in and stares at the toiletries and soap in the bathroom.
(c) Goes outside with Louis while he washes at the pump.
(d) Lies in the haystack with Louis.

2. Upon what four things in the catechism does Thérèse concentrate?
(a) Death, sin, heaven and angels.
(b) Death, judgment, angels, sacrifice.
(c) Death, judgment, heaven, and hell.
(d) Death, sacrifice, angels, heaven.

3. Why is Léonie afraid of being alone in the room where she is sleeping?
(a) She knows her great-grandmother dies in this room.
(b) The branch outside the window taps on the glass in the wind.
(c) She hears people chanting and crying.
(d) Because it is pitch black inside the windowless room.

4. Why does Thérèse refuse to eat?
(a) Because she feels ugly and overweight.
(b) Because there is a famine at the time.
(c) Because her father is not there.
(d) Because her mother is not eating.

5. How does Thérèse feel in her clothes?
(a) Dressed up.
(b) Appropriate.
(c) Inadequate.
(d) Elegant.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Madeleine think the priest wants to have hushed up?

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

3. About what do Léonie and Thérèse argue?

4. What is the name of Léonie's mother?

5. What does Thérèse mix that she hasn't done in many years?

(see the answer key)

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