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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens when the two girls return from the roof?
(a) Thérèse begins her first menstrual cycle.
(b) They play a game of checkers.
(c) They fall asleep in each other's arms.
(d) They fight over who gets what side of the bed.

2. Who tells Thérèse to get up off the floor?
(a) Baptiste.
(b) Antoinette.
(c) Madeleine.
(d) Louis.

3. What does Antoinette wish?
(a) That the girls were sisters.
(b) That the girls are not so fair-haired.
(c) That Henri had lived to see the girls.
(d) That Antoinette had married Thérèse's father.

4. What does Léonie do after Louis leaves the bathroom?
(a) Goes outside with Louis while he washes at the pump.
(b) Goes in and stares at the toiletries and soap in the bathroom.
(c) Lies in the haystack with Louis.
(d) Goes into the bathroom and takes a shower.

5. Why has Thérèse come to the farmhouse?
(a) She is thinking of leaving the monastery and that there is some unfinished business to which she must attend.
(b) She hopes to forgive Léonie.
(c) She feels homesick.
(d) She is planning to sell the farmhouse.

6. What happens when Léonie goes down to the cellar floor?
(a) She sees hundreds of bottles of wine.
(b) She meets an elderly man.
(c) She finds bones.
(d) Her light goes out.

7. How does Thérèse arrive?
(a) By bus.
(b) By carrige.
(c) By plane.
(d) On foot.

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

9. Why is Léonie afraid of being alone in the room where she is sleeping?
(a) The branch outside the window taps on the glass in the wind.
(b) Because it is pitch black inside the windowless room.
(c) She hears people chanting and crying.
(d) She knows her great-grandmother dies in this room.

10. Who of the Germans stays at the Martin estate during the war?
(a) The ranking enlisted and officers.
(b) Only the section administrator.
(c) None.
(d) The officers.

11. Who watches Léonie as she drags the suitcase back and forth in her nightmare?
(a) Maurice.
(b) Madeleine.
(c) Antoinette.
(d) Nazis.

12. Why doesn't Thérèse like the dressing room?
(a) Because it is where her mother makes her stand when she is bad.
(b) Because it smells to strongly of vinegar.
(c) Because Victorine and Antoinette discuss her mother's illness here.
(d) Because she has seen a ghost there.

13. About what do Léonie and Thérèse argue?
(a) If French people are smarter than English people.
(b) Whether it is right to still be angry with German collaborators.
(c) French and English food.
(d) Why horses don't lie down to sleep.

14. What does Léonie see in the woods?
(a) Two woodsmen illegally chopping down a tree.
(b) Madeleine with Louis.
(c) A black stag.
(d) A beautiful woman with olive skin dressed in red.

15. How long has it been since Thérèse had left the monastery?
(a) A year.
(b) Two weeks.
(c) 40 years.
(d) 20 years.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who kept the letters Antoinette sent to her during Thérèse's infancy?

3. How much longer does Antoinette live?

4. What has Léonie been doing while Thérèse has been in the convent?

5. After Madeleine defends Léonie, how does Antoinette act?

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