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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Why does Madeleine move Léonie into Thérèse's room?
(a) To stop Thérèse from being so obsessed with praying.
(b) To punish Léonie.
(c) Hoping the two girls will begin to like each other better.
(d) To torment Thérèse.

4. What does Léonie enjoy?
(a) Climbing the apple tree everyday while visiting Thérèse.
(b) Teasing Thérèse unmercifully.
(c) Being a foreigner for a change.
(d) Brushing her hair one-hundred strokes every night.

5. What does the person who had a German officer as a lover now do?
(a) Runs a bakery in town.
(b) She is dead; killed by angry townsfolk.
(c) She moves to Germany with her lover.
(d) She is in an insane asylum.

6. What is one game the girls play?
(a) All for Love.
(b) Chess.
(c) Jumprope.
(d) Checkers.

7. From where does the chandelier come?
(a) An Irish glass company.
(b) Therese's papa brought the chandelier from Italy for her mother.
(c) The scion of a noble English family.
(d) A glassblower in Germany.

8. What has Léonie been doing while Thérèse has been in the convent?
(a) Léonie married Baptiste and has been raising a family.
(b) Léonie has been teaching school in France.
(c) Léonie has been living in America.
(d) Léonie has been in an insane asylum.

9. How much longer does Antoinette live?
(a) Another year.
(b) Three more years.
(c) Three months.
(d) Two weeks.

10. What does the new priest do when he arrives in the town near the farmhouse?
(a) Has the shrine completely obliterated.
(b) Adds a cross to the shrine's altar.
(c) He puts an end to the worship at the shrine, as well as to the dancing and festivities.
(d) Consecrates the shrine.

11. 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) She tells Antoinette that Léonie was just curious because of a story Madeleine has told Léonie.
(c) Because Madeleine thinks everyone picks on Léonie.
(d) Because Léonie is her daughter.

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

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

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Thérèse notice as the only things that have changed?

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

3. Who chases Léonie?

4. What does the specialist say about Antoinette's breast cancer?

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

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