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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 49, The Alarm Clock.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Thérèse find when she goes to the clearing looking for Léonie?
(a) Baptiste killing a kitten.
(b) The black stag.
(c) Léonie kneeling by a rock.
(d) The woman that Léonie had described.

2. For what does Madeleine scold Thérèse?
(a) For letting her cousin read Antoinette's letter.
(b) For burning the fish soup.
(c) For inviting Baptiste to dinner.
(d) For upsetting her father on his first day home.

3. What are the ladies discussing when the two girls decide to go down to the cellar?
(a) Who is likely to be the next woman to wed.
(b) If their husbands really like being tied down in marriage.
(c) The diagnosis of breast cancer that Antoinette has just received.
(d) Whether there is going to be a major war.

4. What does Léonie wish would break?
(a) The clock that keeps ticking too loudly on the mantel.
(b) Thérèse's heart.
(c) A porcelain vase.
(d) Thérèse's best necklace.

5. Who wants to show Léonie something?
(a) Rose.
(b) Baptiste.
(c) Victorine.
(d) Madeleine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Léonie do with a stream of sand in Thérèse's dream?

2. What does the person who had a German officer as a lover now do?

3. The novel begins with the description of what?

4. Why is Louis in a rage?

5. What does the priest accept from Madeleine for which Thérèse judges him a bit harshly?

(see the answer key)

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