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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 say about the Jews?
(a) That they should have the right to their own beliefs.
(b) That they should be respected.
(c) That they steal children and raise them as Jews.
(d) That the Jews put Jesus to death and compares them to the evil of Communists.

2. What is Louis doing in his workshop?
(a) Handling pieces of the Quimper bowl.
(b) Leading the bull to the cow pasture.
(c) Talking with Madeleine about Antoinette.
(d) Sleeping in the sun.

3. What does the new priest do when he arrives in the town near the farmhouse?
(a) Consecrates the shrine.
(b) Adds a cross to the shrine's altar.
(c) Has the shrine completely obliterated.
(d) He puts an end to the worship at the shrine, as well as to the dancing and festivities.

4. 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) If their husbands really like being tied down in marriage.
(c) Whether there is going to be a major war.
(d) Who is likely to be the next woman to wed.

5. What happens after Thérèse settles in to her new home?
(a) She never goes out of her room.
(b) She is clingy and cries if her mother leaves the room, even for a moment.
(c) She becomes an angel in behavior.
(d) She is independent.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Victorine tell Léonie?

2. Who cares for Thérèse the first year and a half of her life?

3. What does Thérèse learn about her mother?

4. Why does Madeleine defend Léonie's action of going down to the cellar?

5. What happens to what the girls bring up from the cellar?

(see the answer key)

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