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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who does Léonie believe stole her soul?
(a) The devil.
(b) No one; she still believes she has a soul.
(c) The priest who molests her.
(d) Thérèse.

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

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

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

7. About what do Léonie and Thérèse argue?
(a) Whether it is right to still be angry with German collaborators.
(b) French and English food.
(c) Why horses don't lie down to sleep.
(d) If French people are smarter than English people.

8. Who chases Léonie?
(a) A middle-aged man who is angry that she buys bread from the traitor.
(b) Antoinette's ghost.
(c) Some German soldiers.
(d) A group of boys led by Baptiste.

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

10. Who has died at the beginning of Chapter 22?
(a) Henri.
(b) Victorine.
(c) Soeur Dosithée.
(d) Antoinette.

11. What does Léonie do after Louis leaves the bathroom?
(a) Lies in the haystack with Louis.
(b) Goes into the bathroom and takes a shower.
(c) Goes outside with Louis while he washes at the pump.
(d) Goes in and stares at the toiletries and soap in the bathroom.

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

13. Who took the photograph of Léonie and Thérèse?
(a) Baptiste.
(b) Victorine.
(c) Soi Maria.
(d) Henri.

14. 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) The diagnosis of breast cancer that Antoinette has just received.
(d) If their husbands really like being tied down in marriage.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is next to a photo of Léonie?

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

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

4. What happens after Thérèse settles in to her new home?

5. Who is in trouble with the adults?

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