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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. How long has it been since Thérèse had left the monastery?
(a) Two weeks.
(b) 40 years.
(c) 20 years.
(d) A year.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who convinces Thérèse to eat?

2. What is one game the girls play?

3. How does Léonie help Louis?

4. Who was willing to take on a German officer as a lover?

5. When do Léonie and Thérèse meet?

Short Essay Questions

1. In the chapter, "The Dustpan," what is Thérèse's "public" version of why she broke the Quimper dish and what is evident later as to why she breaks it?

2. In the previous chapter, the reader notices that Léonie embraces physicality as seen by her fascination with defecation; in the chapter, "The Frying Pan," what does it seem that Thérèse embraces?

3. What is the implication of Madeleine scolding Thérèse for upsetting her father on his first day home?

4. How is the relationship between Baptiste and Léonie developed in this chapter?

5. What does Thérèse notice in the graveyard in the chapter "The Doorbell"?

6. In "The Cake Tin," what can be implied about Victorine's attitudes towards Jews?

7. Describe Thérèse's dream of Antoinette.

8. What might the lava image which Thérèse images in "The Rosary," mean to Thérèse?

9. In the chapter, "The Silver Cake Tray," what do you think is the significance of the shrine?

10. In an agreement to exchange secrets, Thérèse allows Léonie to read one of Thérèse's letters from Antoinette to her older sister in the convent. Do you think Thérèse is actually revealing a secret?

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