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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 Violette do upon learning of Philippe's address in Chapter 31?
(a) Sends him a letter from a lawyer asking for an amicable divorce.
(b) Goes to see him.
(c) Sends someone to kill him.
(d) Nothing.

2. What do Philippe's parents always do with Leonine at least once a year?
(a) Give her piano lessons.
(b) Take her to Disneyland.
(c) Take her on holiday with them.
(d) Get her hair cut.

3. Who does Violette think look like ghosts?
(a) The men who take care of the cats.
(b) The undertakers.
(c) The women who clean their husbands' graves every day.
(d) The gravediggers.

4. Why is the gravedigger Elvis so nicknamed?
(a) He is American.
(b) He sings all the time.
(c) He is handsome.
(d) He is known for having affairs.

5. How old is Leonine when Violette and Philippe marry?
(a) 1.
(b) 3.
(c) 4.
(d) 8.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 14, what does Violette compare her husband to?

2. How do Mother and Father Toussaint treat Violette?

3. In Chapter 35, the epigraph says everything fades away except which of the following?

4. What is Mother Toussaint's first name?

5. Who is Gabriel's first wife?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is one reason Irene resists running off with Gabriel after their affair?

2. In Chapter 25, how does Violette feel upon Leonine's birth?

3. How does Violette get along with the other cemetery workers, the gravediggers and undertakers?

4. How does Violette describe Philippe's work ethic?

5. In Chapter 27, what does Violette do as soon as Leonine is born in regards to literature?

6. How does Philippe routinely betray Violette in their marriage?

7. How does Violette get rid of teenagers being disrespectful in the cemetery?

8. Where does Leonine go on holiday, and whom with, in Chapter 41?

9. What happens shortly after Violette and Philippe move to the cemetery?

10. What does Violette do once she locates Philippe Toussaint after almost 20 years of separation?

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