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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What happens after Thérèse settles in to her new home?
(a) She never goes out of her room.
(b) She becomes an angel in behavior.
(c) She is independent.
(d) She is clingy and cries if her mother leaves the room, even for a moment.

4. What do the girls do after being exhausted from fighting?
(a) Go to sleep.
(b) Go downstairs for hot chocolate.
(c) Have a sexual encounter.
(d) Go play with the kittens in the barn.

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

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

7. What does Léonie enjoy?
(a) Torturing kittens.
(b) Playing on the apple tree swing.
(c) The art of defecating.
(d) Going to neighbor's houses for dinner.

8. What does Thérèse mix that she hasn't done in many years?
(a) An alcoholic drink.
(b) The dog food.
(c) The potting soil with clay.
(d) Chocolate cake.

9. Where do Thérèse and Léonie walk?
(a) Into the kitchen.
(b) Upstairs to the library.
(c) Into the conservatory.
(d) Into the living room.

10. Who watches Léonie as she drags the suitcase back and forth in her nightmare?
(a) Maurice.
(b) Nazis.
(c) Madeleine.
(d) Antoinette.

11. 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) She hears people chanting and crying.
(d) The branch outside the window taps on the glass in the wind.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the farmhouse described?

2. What does Léonie say about the Jews?

3. What does Thérèse do as she walks through the house?

4. What does the person who had a German officer as a lover now do?

5. Who relishes her breakfast the next morning though Louis and Thérèse refuse to eat?

(see the answer keys)

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