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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What time does the workday end?
(a) 6 o'clock.
(b) 5 o'clock.
(c) 7 o'clock.
(d) 5:30.

2. What object does the patronne watch outside the cafe after Anne and the man sit at a table in Chapter 3?
(a) A car.
(b) An airplane.
(c) A tugboat.
(d) A sailboat.

3. What does Anne do at the bar that finally prompts the man to approach her in Chapter 4?
(a) Orders beer.
(b) Orders tea.
(c) Orders food.
(d) Orders more wine.

4. What or whom announces the end of the workday in Chapter 2?
(a) The man.
(b) The patronne.
(c) A bell.
(d) The siren.

5. What type of flower does the man tell Anne was between her breasts at the factory worker's party the previous year?
(a) A rose.
(b) A magnolia.
(c) A violet.
(d) A carnation.

6. What does Anne tell her child at the end of Chapter 2?
(a) That he is sweet.
(b) That he is smart.
(c) That he must behave.
(d) That she thinks she invented him.

7. What does the patronne begin to do after Anne leaves the bar to go sit at a table in Chapter 3?
(a) Knits a hat.
(b) Draws a picture.
(c) Knits a sweater.
(d) Drinks tea.

8. What is the first subject the man at the bar brings up when he first addresses Anne?
(a) The weather.
(b) Her child.
(c) The murder the previous day.
(d) Wine.

9. What noise is heard outside the window of the teacher during the music lesson?
(a) A man yelling.
(b) A woman's scream.
(c) A man's scream.
(d) A woman yelling.

10. Who eventually stops the music lesson to investigate the source of the loud noise outside heard in Chapter 1?
(a) The child.
(b) The teacher.
(c) Anne.
(d) No one.

11. Anne tells the man that she throws a reception for whom at her house every year?
(a) The teachers in town.
(b) The factory workers.
(c) The restaurant workers.
(d) Her friends.

12. Where does the man at the bar say the dead woman's husband worked?
(a) The dockyard.
(b) He doesn't say.
(c) In the cafe.
(d) A restaurant.

13. Where does Anne tell the man her house is located?
(a) The first one on the Boulevard de Sands.
(b) The red one on the Boulevard de la Mer.
(c) The blue one on the Boulevard de Sands.
(d) The last one on the Boulevard de la Mer.

14. What does Anne describe as "like black ink"?
(a) The shadow of the beech tree.
(b) Her heart.
(c) Her house.
(d) Her child.

15. At the end of Chapter 1, who is standing with Anne's child when she returns from the scene in the cafe?
(a) The teacher.
(b) A stranger.
(c) Another child.
(d) No one.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who says, "I'm not used to going so far away from home"?

2. What does Anne tell her child she will buy for him at the end of Chapter 3?

3. Who says, "all I know is that he shot her through the heart"?

4. What habit does Anne admit to the man that she has acquired?

5. When does Anne say she goes to the railings at her home?

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