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

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

3. Who convinces Thérèse to eat?
(a) Antoinette.
(b) Henr.
(c) Rose.
(d) Louis.

4. What does Thérèse notice as the only things that have changed?
(a) The wallpaper.
(b) The bedspreades.
(c) The curtins.
(d) The appliances.

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

6. What does Thérèse do as she walks through the house?
(a) Decides what she wants from each room.
(b) Turns lights on and off in the rooms.
(c) Sits and remembers her childhood in each room.
(d) Tells Henri about each piece of furniture.

7. What does Thérèse notice that Léonie has done?
(a) Started allowing the cats and dogs in the house.
(b) Knitted stockings for Thérèse.
(c) Taken care in setting the table.
(d) Put old sheets on her bed.

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

9. How does Léonie help Louis?
(a) Picking blueberries.
(b) Spreading horse manure.
(c) Pulling weeds.
(d) Raking the orchard.

10. 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.

11. What has Léonie pretended for 20 years?
(a) That Thérèse would come and they could be together again.
(b) That the house belongs to her.
(c) That Baptiste is the man she loves.
(d) That Thérèse is dead.

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

13. What does Thérèse do for her mother?
(a) Reads to her in bed.
(b) Combs and braids her hair everyday.
(c) She makes herself suffer in small ways so that her mother will suffer less in purgatory.
(d) Takes her tea three times a day.

14. With what is Léonie fascinated?
(a) With how sharp the kitchen knives are.
(b) The way Baptiste cannot keep his eyes off Thérèse.
(c) The way Thérèse is dressed.
(d) The family photographs.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Madeleine defend Léonie's action of going down to the cellar?

2. Who is staring angrily at Thérèse as the front door opens?

3. What does Louis suffer after Antoinette dies?

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

5. What does Léonie do after Louis leaves the bathroom?

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