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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 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.

2. 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) Lies in the haystack with Louis.
(d) Goes outside with Louis while he washes at the pump.

3. What does Léonie dream in the nightmare at the beginning of Chapter 18?
(a) That Madeleine's head is rolling down the cellar steps.
(b) That Antoinette's red suitcase is tied up in scarlet cloth.
(c) That she is about to be buried alive in the cellar.
(d) That Thérèse nails Léonie to a cross.

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

5. The novel begins with the description of what?
(a) The farm house.
(b) A nightmare.
(c) Michael's favorite horse.
(d) The barn.

Short Answer Questions

1. Upon what four things in the catechism does Thérèse concentrate?

2. What is in the package the mail carrier throws over the gate?

3. Why does Thérèse bang her head against the floor?

4. Why does Victorine takes Léonie and Thérèse into the woods?

5. What does Baptiste do?

(see the answer key)

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