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

2. What name is given to the viol?
(a) Jamie.
(b) Griselda.
(c) Lilith.
(d) Maryjane.

3. Where does Marguerite travel and sing in?
(a) North America.
(b) Europe.
(c) Africa.
(d) South America.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who names the viol?

2. What object does Charlotte use to spy on M. Marais while he is undressing?

3. What does Matilda grow on her back?

4. What do the cows give when Madeleine sleeps?

5. Who picks Madeleine out from the crowd and wraps her in string?

Short Essay Questions

1. What types of things does Matilda record in her diary?

2. How does M. Pujol feel about posing for the old widow?

3. How does Madeleine feels about her impairment when she is in the convent in Paris?

4. How did M. Pujol lose his place on stage? Who replaced him?

5. Why did Saint Michel wish to be beaten and punished?

6. Who commissions the viol and why?

7. Why is Madeleine disappointed in the gypsy camp?

8. Why does M. Pujol cry and make mournful sounds in his sleep?

9. Why does Jean-Luc climb the trellis attached to his house?

10. Who is the widow?

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