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

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

3. What happened to the fish in the widow's pond after it was struck by lightning?
(a) It was drained of color.
(b) It was electrified.
(c) It was turned black.
(d) It was killed.

4. Who does the widow see tangled together beneath the bushes?
(a) Charlotte and Adrien.
(b) Marguerite and Adrien.
(c) M. Pujol and Adrien.
(d) Madeleine and Adrien.

5. Who is The Director?
(a) The man who runs the hospital.
(b) The man who makes films of his patients.
(c) The man who stole M. Pujol and locked him in a cellar.
(d) The man who is in love with M. Pujol.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does M. Pujol not want to leave behind when he departs the gypsies?

2. What about M. Pujol's neck surprises Madeleine?

3. Who does Madeleine realize she loves?

4. Which objects do Beatrice and Sophie use to communicate secretly while in church?

5. The mayor is what kind of father?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does M. Pujol feel about the people showering his caravan with gravel?

2. How does the Mayor and his eldest daughter treat Mother when she visits their house? Why?

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

4. Why does Madeleine insist that it is not her in the picture paddling M. Pujol?

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

6. How do Sophie and Beatrice communicate in code while in church?

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

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

9. Why does Madeleine's sleeping form begin to develop bruises?

10. Why does Madeleine gather gravel to drop on top of M. Pujol's caravan?

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