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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. How does Thérèse arrive?
(a) By carrige.
(b) On foot.
(c) By bus.
(d) By plane.

2. Why does Thérèse refuse to eat?
(a) Because there is a famine at the time.
(b) Because her father is not there.
(c) Because her mother is not eating.
(d) Because she feels ugly and overweight.

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

4. Of what is Thérèse's bag full?
(a) Knitting wool.
(b) Money.
(c) Books about Jewish history and customs.
(d) Clothing.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Upon what four things in the catechism does Thérèse concentrate?

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

3. What does Baptiste do to gain the attention of the two girls?

4. What is next to a photo of Léonie?

5. What does Antoinette wish?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do you think is symbolic about the dinner the two women share?

2. How do Therèse's actions in this chapter, "The Fish Kettle," foreshadow her decision to become a nun?

3. What is a possible reason the author has Léonie jabbing her cigarette in the air to emphasize the argument with Thérèse?

4. How does Antoinette's wasted and emaciated body trigger feelings within Thérèse of her own body image as evidenced in the chapter "The Pillows"?

5. In the chapter, "The Holdall," how does what Léonie finds while going through Thérèse's things demonstrate the differences between the two women?

6. Do you think either woman is more innocent in the way they interact here in the chapter titled "The Cigarette?"

7. The chapter titled, "The Water Bottle" is dense with imagery. Identify two of the images and what they might represent.

8. In "The Onyx Ashtray," what are the ways the Priest conspires to keep the knowledge about the found bones from becoming a focus for the media?

9. How does Léonie symbolically enter the adult world in the chapter titled "The Ironing Board"?

10. What rather strange and perhaps a bit disturbing fact is revealed about Léonie in this chapter?

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