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

2. What does the person who had a German officer as a lover now do?
(a) She moves to Germany with her lover.
(b) She is dead; killed by angry townsfolk.
(c) Runs a bakery in town.
(d) She is in an insane asylum.

3. Who is in trouble with the adults?
(a) Léonie and Baptiste.
(b) Léonie and Thérèse.
(c) No one.s
(d) Baptiste and his male friends.

4. How does Léonie help Louis?
(a) Raking the orchard.
(b) Spreading horse manure.
(c) Picking blueberries.
(d) Pulling weeds.

5. How does Antoinette say Madeleine must raise Léonie?
(a) As a good Catholic.
(b) As a society debutante.
(c) As one who will one day have a noble title to live up to.
(d) As a Church of England member.

Short Answer Questions

1. About what do the hosts and guest sit in the salon and talk?

2. After Madeleine defends Léonie, how does Antoinette act?

3. What does Antoinette describe in the letters?

4. Why does Madeleine move Léonie into Thérèse's room?

5. At the end of the chapter what does Léonie imagine she and Thérèse are doing?

Short Essay Questions

1. What task do you believe is now set before Léonie?

2. What is foreshadowed in the chapter "The Baby Book"?

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

4. Describe the vision experience that Thérèse has in this chapter.

5. To what do you think Léonie's fears are related in the chapter "The Nightlight"?

6. What in the chapter, "The Recipe Book," suggests that prejudice still exists against the Jews?

7. Describe Thérèse's dream of Antoinette.

8. How, in "The Dust," does Léonie's actions foreshadow her eventual life as wife and mother and living at the Martin property?

9. Describe the first few minutes of Thérèse and Léonie's time together as described in "The Chandelier."

10. In the chapter, "The Quimper Dish, what do you think is the reason behind Thérèse's sudden "illness"?

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