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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 44, The Washing-Up Bowl.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has Léonie pretended for 20 years?
(a) That Baptiste is the man she loves.
(b) That the house belongs to her.
(c) That Thérèse would come and they could be together again.
(d) That Thérèse is dead.

2. With what is Léonie fascinated?
(a) With how sharp the kitchen knives are.
(b) The way Thérèse is dressed.
(c) The way Baptiste cannot keep his eyes off Thérèse.
(d) The family photographs.

3. What does Victorine tell Léonie?
(a) The possibility of the bones belonging to Jews killed by the Nazis.
(b) That Rose is actually Thérèse's mother.
(c) Why Louis intends to move to India.
(d) How her mother came to marry an Englishman.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the priest suggest for Thérèse?

2. What have Thérèse and Léonie given Victorine for her birthday?

3. What does Antoinette wish?

4. What happens after Thérèse settles in to her new home?

5. Who watches Léonie as she drags the suitcase back and forth in her nightmare?

(see the answer key)

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