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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the man tell Anne is in bloom in her garden?
(a) A rosemary bush.
(b) An orange tree.
(c) A magnolia tree.
(d) A rose bush.

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

3. Who leads Anne home from the cafe in Chapter 4?
(a) The child.
(b) The patronne.
(c) The man.
(d) The teacher.

4. What landscape does Anne see when she looks out the window of the teacher's apartment in Chapter 1?
(a) The sea.
(b) Mountains.
(c) Rivers.
(d) A lake.

5. Who says, "it would have been impossible for me not to come back"?
(a) The child.
(b) Anne.
(c) The teacher.
(d) The man.

6. Why can't Anne walk home fast enough for her child at the end of Chapter 4?
(a) She is too full of food.
(b) She doesn't want to go back.
(c) She is tired.
(d) She is too drunk.

7. To what does Anne compare the dead woman's scream when discussing the death with the man?
(a) A banshee.
(b) Her child's.
(c) Her own during childbirth.
(d) The teacher's.

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

9. What kind of birds does Anne say are everywhere and can be found dead after a storm?
(a) Pelicans.
(b) Seagulls.
(c) Bluebirds.
(d) Crows.

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

11. Where does the child play while Anne drinks at the bar?
(a) On the sidewalk.
(b) In the street.
(c) In the bar.
(d) Upstairs at the teacher's apartment.

12. Which of the following does the patronne not say about the dead woman?
(a) She had three children.
(b) She was pretty.
(c) She drank.
(d) She was married.

13. Who says, "I suspect that he would have done it of his own accord one day"?
(a) The patronne.
(b) Anne.
(c) The man.
(d) The child.

14. What does Anne first ask the man when they talk at the cafe in Chapter 3?
(a) Why he is there.
(b) What his name is.
(c) Where he lives.
(d) Why he isn't working.

15. What does the child question Anne about that she refuses to answer?
(a) Why they are at the bar.
(b) The source of the scream.
(c) Who the man is.
(d) When they are leaving.

Short Answer Questions

1. What road do Anne and the child walk along at the beginning of Chapter 2?

2. What does Anne tell the patronne about her child when she enters the cafe in Chapter 3?

3. Where does Anne tell the man the boulevard she lives on will be extended to?

4. What instrument does the child learn in the book?

5. What is the name of the child's teacher?

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