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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. Of what is Antionette's mouth full?
(a) Chocolate cake.
(b) Torn-up letters and broken glass.
(c) Chewing gum.
(d) Lentils.

2. Why does Madeleine move Léonie into Thérèse's room?
(a) To torment Thérèse.
(b) To stop Thérèse from being so obsessed with praying.
(c) To punish Léonie.
(d) Hoping the two girls will begin to like each other better.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the name of Léonie's mother?

3. What does Thérèse do as she walks through the house?

4. What does Antoinette wish?

5. What does Léonie tell the house?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. To what do you think Léonie's dream in "The Red Suitcase," is related and of what do you think the suitcase is symbolic?

3. How is the dream connected to Léonie's dream in the first chapter?

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

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

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

7. What story does Léonie tell Baptiste and what is his response?

8. Describe how the church is decorated for the upcoming festival and what is perhaps a bit odd about that.

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

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

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