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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Opening, pp. 1-13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The man who sold Madame Devalier the flowers is from which location?
(a) Mississippi.
(b) Africa.
(c) St. Louis.
(d) Jamaica.

2. What kind of people get their physical characteristics from potatoes?
(a) Asian.
(b) Celtic.
(c) African.
(d) Slavic.

3. How long has Madame Devalier kept her shop?
(a) Ten years.
(b) Sixty years.
(c) Forty years.
(d) Twenty years.

4. What does the narrator refer to as the steam that rises from Priscilla's tired feet?
(a) Mouse gas.
(b) Foot smoke.
(c) Nitrogen.
(d) Stink mist.

5. What is discovered in V'lu's cot when she goes to bed at the beginning of the book?
(a) A note.
(b) A flower.
(c) A bee.
(d) A beet.

Short Answer Questions

1. What time is it when Madame Devalier asks V'lu for the time at the beginning of the novel?

2. What kind of liquor do Madame Devalier and V'lu discuss drinking?

3. Claude asks Marcel if he's heard from which character in the United States?

4. In what kind of apartment do artists rarely live?

5. When was perfume introduced to France?

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