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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. What does Léonie see in the woods?
(a) Two woodsmen illegally chopping down a tree.
(b) A black stag.
(c) Madeleine with Louis.
(d) A beautiful woman with olive skin dressed in red.

2. Upon what four things in the catechism does Thérèse concentrate?
(a) Death, judgment, heaven, and hell.
(b) Death, judgment, angels, sacrifice.
(c) Death, sin, heaven and angels.
(d) Death, sacrifice, angels, heaven.

3. What does Léonie enjoy?
(a) Being a foreigner for a change.
(b) Brushing her hair one-hundred strokes every night.
(c) Teasing Thérèse unmercifully.
(d) Climbing the apple tree everyday while visiting Thérèse.

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

5. What has Léonie pretended for 20 years?
(a) That Baptiste is the man she loves.
(b) That Thérèse would come and they could be together again.
(c) That Thérèse is dead.
(d) That the house belongs to her.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who chases Léonie?

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

3. When the two girls go downstairs, what do they find?

4. Why does Victorine takes Léonie and Thérèse into the woods?

5. How is the farmhouse described?

Short Essay Questions

1. What in "The Ivory Ring" chapter foreshadows Thérèse's despondency about her mother's death and her father transferring his affection to Madeleine?

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

3. How is it intimated that parts of the house are "open," and other parts "secreted," just as the two girls are open in some ways and secretive in others?

4. What do you think is the significance of Thérèse's threat of "the silent treatment" to Léonie?

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

6. In "The Gray Silk Nightshirt," as the two women sit and chat in Thérèse's room, what is revealed overtly or implied about their relationship and each woman as individuals?

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

8. In the chapter "The Photographs," what in the photographs displayed again reveals the different focus of the two women when they are girls?

9. Describe Thérèse's first tour of the house as shown in "The Buffet." What is ironic about one of her thoughts?

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

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