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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is revealed after the ball of string has been unraveled?
(a) Madeleine has disappeared.
(b) Madeleline is the same.
(c) Madeleine has grown.
(d) Madeleine has shrunken.

2. What does Mother use to line her pots of preserves?
(a) Wrapping paper.
(b) Drawings.
(c) Tissue paper.
(d) Newspaper.

3. What does Charlotte wish she had?
(a) Buttons.
(b) Strings.
(c) Beads.
(d) Holes.

4. Who is Mother?
(a) Madeleine's mother.
(b) Matilda's mother.
(c) No one's mother.
(d) M. Pujol's mother.

5. Who is Marguerite?
(a) A singer.
(b) A pianist.
(c) A composer.
(d) A jazz musician.

6. What do the hearts of the congregation turn into when Madeleine touches and blows on them?
(a) Flowers.
(b) Clouds.
(c) Fruit.
(d) Stars.

7. Why is Madeleine disappointed with the gypsy camp?
(a) The camp is too messy.
(b) The camp is too large.
(c) The camp is too clean.
(d) The camp is too small.

8. Who from Madeleine's household climbs the trellis of the house to meet Matilda as she arrives?
(a) Claude.
(b) Jean-Luc.
(c) Madeleine.
(d) Mother.

9. What does Matilda grow on her back?
(a) A line of spikes.
(b) An extra arm.
(c) A set of wings.
(d) A tail.

10. What gift does M. Jouy give to Madeleine on Christmas Day?
(a) Door knobs.
(b) Sticks.
(c) Drawings.
(d) Flowers.

11. Why does Mother wish she was slim and childless?
(a) So her husband would love her again.
(b) So she could date men.
(c) So she could be free.
(d) So she could be a model.

12. How does Madeleine feel about her helplessness?
(a) She enjoys it.
(b) She hates it.
(c) She is neutral.
(d) She is sad.

13. How does Marguerite feel about being replaced?
(a) Confused.
(b) Happy.
(c) Relieved.
(d) Angry.

14. Why does Papa grow impatient at his orchard?
(a) The wrong fruit falls to the ground.
(b) Too much fruit litters the ground.
(c) Not enough fruit falls to the ground.
(d) Bugs litter the ground.

15. Who is Madeleine?
(a) A woman who sings for money.
(b) A young girl who has many brothers and sisters.
(c) A woman who flies.
(d) A child who is lost in the woods.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Adrien?

2. Who tells Madeleine to watch M. Jouy's face when it crumples?

3. What do the children in town throw at Matilda as she passes?

4. What does Matilda record her scientific observations in?

5. Who cleans up Madeleine when she menstruates?

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