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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 the specialist say about Antoinette's breast cancer?
(a) That it may not be cancer after all.
(b) That it does not look good.
(c) That it will just take a little surgery and she'll be fine.
(d) Nothing; he does not want to scare her.

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

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

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

5. Who tells Thérèse to get up off the floor?
(a) Madeleine.
(b) Baptiste.
(c) Antoinette.
(d) Louis.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Thérèse do when her mother takes her home at a year and a half?

2. What does Thérèse notice as the only things that have changed?

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

4. Who kept the letters Antoinette sent to her during Thérèse's infancy?

5. What do the two girls do to save the "dead" baby doll?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. In the chapter, "The Oranges," what problem do you think Léonie is really trying to resolve when she is juggling the oranges or thinking of the magpies?

4. What hint is there in the chapter, "The Cellar Key," that something about the cellar upsets Antoinette?

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

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

7. 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?

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

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

10. 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?

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