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

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

4. 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.

5. 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 Madeleine's head is rolling down the cellar steps.
(c) That Antoinette's red suitcase is tied up in scarlet cloth.
(d) That Thérèse nails Léonie to a cross.

6. When Léonie awakens, what does she realize?
(a) She is too scared to scream.
(b) The window has opened on its own.
(c) She has wet her bed.
(d) She is not alone in the bed.

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

8. Who kept the letters Antoinette sent to her during Thérèse's infancy?
(a) Thérèse.
(b) Henri.
(c) Soeur Dosithée.
(d) Victorine.

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

10. What does Baptiste do to gain the attention of the two girls?
(a) Shoots at pigeons on the rooftop.
(b) Treats some kittens cruelly.
(c) Rides bareback on a horse while standing up.
(d) Swings down out of a tree to scare them.

11. What are the ladies discussing when the two girls decide to go down to the cellar?
(a) Whether there is going to be a major war.
(b) Who is likely to be the next woman to wed.
(c) If their husbands really like being tied down in marriage.
(d) The diagnosis of breast cancer that Antoinette has just received.

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

13. What does Antoinette do under the influence of morphine?
(a) Sleeps as if dead.
(b) They did not have morphine at that time.
(c) Has nightmares and moves in her sleep.
(d) Tells Louis that he is not her husband.

14. Why does Baptiste supposedly despise Thérèse?
(a) For encouraging him to marry Léonie.
(b) Because she rejects his marriage proposal many years ago.
(c) Because he hates her father.
(d) For listening to him and Léonie making love many years ago.

15. Who claims to see the devil hiding behind the curtains?
(a) Louis.
(b) Thérèse.
(c) Baptiste.
(d) Léonie.