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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 does Madeleine tell about her game with M. Jouy?
(a) Mother.
(b) Her siblings.
(c) Matilda.
(d) Papa.

2. What does Matilda record her scientific observations in?
(a) Her diary.
(b) Her fat rolls.
(c) Her shoe inserts.
(d) Her scroll.

3. What does Mother do with all of the excess fruit from the orchard?
(a) She makes preserves, pastries, and apple butter.
(b) She throws the fruit away.
(c) She sells the fruit for a good profit.
(d) She turns the fruit into jam and bathes in it.

4. Who does Madeleine grip and fondle in her dream?
(a) M. Pujol.
(b) Papa.
(c) Duke of Wurtemburg.
(d) M. Jouy.

5. What is Mother's heirloom?
(a) A soft tunic.
(b) A bone comb.
(c) A hand mirror.
(d) A pair of glasses.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who comes to kiss Madeleine?

2. Who is Matilda?

3. Madeleine looks beautiful while she is doing what?

4. Who is Madeleine?

5. Who does Mother ask for help from when trying to decipher Madeleine's behavior?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does Mother do with all of the fruit Madeleine dreams up?

6. Why does Mother plunge Madeleine's hands into a pot of boiling lye?

7. How does Madeleine feel about M. Pujol by the end of Part One?

8. Why does the gypsy troupe begin to despair about their current situation? How is this remedied?

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

10. How does Charlotte feel about the viol?

(see the answer keys)

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