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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 Madeleine think the priest wants to have hushed up?
(a) The situation with the bones and the shrine.
(b) The fact that he has aided the Nazis.
(c) The fact that the shrine has been the scene of visions.
(d) The fact that the Priest smokes.

2. What does Thérèse learn about her mother?
(a) That Louis is her first cousin.
(b) That she at one time was going to move to the United States.
(c) That she was probably raped by Germans and Thérèse is a result of that.
(d) That she has a German lover.

3. When the two girls go downstairs, what do they find?
(a) Antoinette is feeling very much better.
(b) Madeleine singing the Hail Mary.
(c) Antoinette has died and Louis is sleeping with his head against Madeleine's shoulder.
(d) Louis is giving his wife a sip of water.

4. When is Léonie's birthday?
(a) A year to the day later.
(b) 2 weeks before Thérèse's.
(c) The same day as Thérèse's.
(d) Just a week after Thérèse's.

5. About what do the hosts and guest sit in the salon and talk?
(a) Religion.
(b) Politics.
(c) Farming.
(d) Parties.

Short Answer Questions

1. The novel begins with the description of what?

2. Who was willing to take on a German officer as a lover?

3. What is the consequence of Henri's death?

4. What does the specialist say about Antoinette's breast cancer?

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

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