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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Thérèse mix that she hasn't done in many years?
(a) Chocolate cake.
(b) An alcoholic drink.
(c) The potting soil with clay.
(d) The dog food.

4. What does Léonie still use?
(a) The old pump outside the kitchen door.
(b) The Model T Ford.
(c) All of Victorine's recipes.
(d) Feather tickler beds.

5. Why does Madeleine defend Léonie's action of going down to the cellar?
(a) Because Madeleine asks Léonie to go get some wine from the cellar.
(b) Because Léonie is her daughter.
(c) She tells Antoinette that Léonie was just curious because of a story Madeleine has told Léonie.
(d) Because Madeleine thinks everyone picks on Léonie.

6. What does Louis suffer after Antoinette dies?
(a) Feelings of confusion.
(b) A feeling of relief.
(c) Feelings of guilt since he had been tired of caring for her.
(d) A period of intense grief.

7. What happens to what the girls bring up from the cellar?
(a) Antoinette tosses it in the fire.
(b) Henri says it was from when they made wine.
(c) The gardener kills them.
(d) The cook is making a white sauce with them.

8. 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) Whether there is going to be a major war.
(c) Who is likely to be the next woman to wed.
(d) If their husbands really like being tied down in marriage.

9. Who is staring angrily at Thérèse as the front door opens?
(a) Léonie.
(b) Antionette.
(c) No one.
(d) Henri.

10. Of what is Thérèse's bag full?
(a) Books about Jewish history and customs.
(b) Money.
(c) Clothing.
(d) Knitting wool.

11. Where will Thérèse sleep?
(a) In the tiny guest room in the back of the house.
(b) In a guest cottage near the main house.
(c) In the attic.
(d) In the master bedroom where her parents slept.

12. Why does Victorine takes Léonie and Thérèse into the woods?
(a) To teach them woods lore.
(b) To have them help her plant more apple trees.
(c) To show them their ancestors' graves.
(d) To pick berries.

13. What is next to a photo of Léonie?
(a) A photo of a German officer.
(b) A photograph of Thérèse dressed for her first communion.
(c) A photo of Léonie's mother.
(d) A photo of Baptiste.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why has Thérèse come to the farmhouse?

2. How does Thérèse feel in her clothes?

3. What does Léonie do with Thérèse's things?

4. Why doesn't Thérèse like the dressing room?

5. How is the farmhouse described?

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