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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Antoinette describe in the letters?
(a) How Thérèse's father is having an affair.
(b) How Rose Taillé took the baby in because she lost her own baby the week before.
(c) How Thérèse is such a quiet baby.
(d) How Léonie was always jealous of Thérèse.

3. After Madeleine defends Léonie, how does Antoinette act?
(a) She forbids anyone to go down into the cellar anymore.
(b) She insists that Léonie be whipped.
(c) She smiles and says it's alright.
(d) She is still clearly upset.

4. Who relishes her breakfast the next morning though Louis and Thérèse refuse to eat?
(a) Madeleine.
(b) Léonie.
(c) Henri.
(d) Baptiste.

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

6. When the two girls go downstairs, what do they find?
(a) Madeleine singing the Hail Mary.
(b) Antoinette has died and Louis is sleeping with his head against Madeleine's shoulder.
(c) Louis is giving his wife a sip of water.
(d) Antoinette is feeling very much better.

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

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

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

10. Why does Thérèse refuse to eat?
(a) Because she feels ugly and overweight.
(b) Because her father is not there.
(c) Because her mother is not eating.
(d) Because there is a famine at the time.

11. Why does Thérèse bang her head against the floor?
(a) Because she feels her thoughts are off-track.
(b) Because she believes if she hurts her head, she will think pure thoughts.
(c) Because she is trying to awaken her mother in the room below.
(d) Because she has a brain tumor and is not in control of her actions.

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

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

14. What does the specialist say about Antoinette's breast cancer?
(a) That it will just take a little surgery and she'll be fine.
(b) That it may not be cancer after all.
(c) That it does not look good.
(d) Nothing; he does not want to scare her.

15. How is the farmhouse described?
(a) As changeable.
(b) As a safe haven.
(c) As common.
(d) As a rickety old building.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Thérèse feel in her clothes?

2. What does Antoinette do under the influence of morphine?

3. What does Madeleine tell her daughter about the daughter's father, Maurice?

4. About what do Léonie and Thérèse argue?

5. How does Léonie help Louis?

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