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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Violette regret giving her daughter for Christmas?
(a) A hat.
(b) New clothes.
(c) A magician's kit.
(d) A book.

2. What does Genevieve plan to buy at Bricorama?
(a) A hammer.
(b) Wood.
(c) Rope.
(d) Nails.

3. In Chapter 69, who will take over Violette's duties while she is gone?
(a) Nono.
(b) Sasha.
(c) Father Cedric.
(d) Philippe.

4. What day is a day funerals never take place on?
(a) Easter.
(b) Monday.
(c) Thanksgiving.
(d) Sunday.

5. How does Philippe feel about Celia?
(a) He has neutral feelings about her.
(b) He is suspicious of her.
(c) He loves her.
(d) He despises her.

6. What does Sasha tell Violette he did not realize he had to tend to in order to make his garden grow one year?
(a) Planting in the sun.
(b) Water.
(c) Weeds.
(d) Fertilizer.

7. In Chapter 73, who do Philippe and Violette learned has killed herself?
(a) Irene.
(b) Helene.
(c) Genevieve.
(d) Jennifer.

8. What does the epigraph in Chapter 66 say is the first sorrow one weeps over without her mother?
(a) Her mother's death.
(b) Her child's death.
(c) Her husband's death.
(d) Her father's death.

9. What does Violette think is particularly strange about the official story of what happened at La Clayette the night Leonine died?
(a) Matches were not allowed at the resort.
(b) Fires' causes are easy to determine.
(c) Leonine hated milk.
(d) No one at the resort smoked.

10. In Chapter 60, the epigraph says a memory never dies, but instead does which of the following?
(a) Gets buried.
(b) Falls asleep.
(c) Eats.
(d) Gets discredited.

11. In Chapter 78, who does Nono seem to have a crush on?
(a) Helena.
(b) Irene.
(c) The countess.
(d) Violette.

12. What skill does the cemetery-keeper before Violette have that he teaches her?
(a) Singing.
(b) Dancing.
(c) Painting.
(d) Gardening.

13. In Chapter 77, where does Violette tell Philippe she is going when she is really going to see Sasha?
(a) London.
(b) Marseilles.
(c) Barcelona.
(d) Berlin.

14. In Chapter 59, the epigraph says what about the tree?
(a) Trees have memory.
(b) Planting trees in the shade never works.
(c) Trees are only as strong as their weakest leaves.
(d) It is only when the tree is lying down that one gets the measure of its stature.

15. Who does Genevieve long expect will visit her?
(a) Eloise.
(b) Philippe.
(c) Fontanel.
(d) Edith.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens the last time the woman in Chapter 57 sees Philippe during their affair?

2. When is Philippe's funeral?

3. What does Violette neglect to do after Leonine's death that people think is strange?

4. In Chapter 71, where does Irene travel on an impulse to meet Gabriel again?

5. How does Leonine die?

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