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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 Mother use to break M. Jouy out of the hospital?
(a) Her children.
(b) No one, she did it solo.
(c) The beggars of town.
(d) The neighbors.

2. Why do Madeleine and Adrien weep and hold each other like orphans?
(a) Because they do not want to be separated.
(b) Because they mourn M. Pujol's disappearance.
(c) Because they hate the widow.
(d) Because they are in love.

3. Mother used to stop sewing to do what for Madeleine when she put her head in her lap?
(a) Cut her hair.
(b) Brush her hair.
(c) Curl her hair.
(d) Braid her hair.

4. What is one of the ways Madeleine imagines escaping the hospital?
(a) Escape by tunnel.
(b) Escape by costume.
(c) Escape by catapult.
(d) Escape by violence.

5. What type of toast does Madeleine eat while visiting the widow in her chambers?
(a) Raisin.
(b) Potato.
(c) Cinnamon.
(d) Vanilla.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Madeleine feel when she sees the person caressing M. Pujol?

2. Why does Mother's preserve business begin to struggle?

3. What type of fruit does M. Pujol offer Madeleine when he sees her standing outside in the sunlight?

4. Where are the girl's found after they go missing from the village?

5. What does Madeline use to emulate the sound of rain on M. Pujol's caravan?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Hugh?

2. Why do Madeleine and Adrien travel to the Institute for the Study of Aberrant Behaviors and Conditions? Who is there?

3. How does the widow feel when she sees Madeleine and Adrien tangled together beneath the bushes?

4. Why does Madeleine get upset when she is compared to the Abbott who tortured Saint Michel?

5. Why does Adrien join Madeleine in showering M. Pujol's caravan with gravel?

6. Describe Mother's plan to break M. Jouy out of the hospital.

7. Why does Mother blame Madeleine for her troubles with the town's people?

8. For what reasons does Adrien want to change the name of M. Pujol's photograph from Stupefaction to Revulsion?

9. Why does M. Pujol tell Madeleine the story of the widow and the carp?

10. How does M. Pujol feel about being paddled by Madeleine?

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