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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What key does the teacher have the child play the scales in?

2. Who comments that the child has been working on his sonatina for a month?

3. Who asks Anne to leave the cafe in Chapter 6?

4. What question does the child ask Anne just after leaving the music lesson in Chapter 5?

5. What is Chauvin talking about when he tells Anne "you better resign yourself to the idea"?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the teacher respond to Anne after she says that to improve his piano playing her child just needs to apply himself more?

2. What does Chauvin do outside Anne's house during the dinner party.

3. Describe how Anne and Chauvin react when the child enters the cafe near the end of Chapter 6.

4. Why does Anne make her child repeat moderately and melodiously at the beginning of Chapter 5?

5. In what way does Chauvin tell Anne the dead woman obeyed her husband?

6. What causes the child to play his scales properly during his music lesson in Chapter 5?

7. What does the patronne tell Chauvin about Anne during the child's music lesson in Chapter 5?

8. Describe Anne and Chauvin's appearance in Chapter 8.

9. Describe the first time Anne and Chauvin physically touch.

10. What does Anne tell Chauvin about the women who lived behind the beech tree?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Anne's parenting ability in the book. In what was did she fail as a parent and where did she succeed? What did Anne's attitude toward parenting say about her state of mind?

Essay Topic 2

Examine the allegorical nature of Anne and Chauvin's conversations. What does this say about the nature of their relationship? What role does allegory play in the outcome of their relationship?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the portrayal of fantasy versus reality in the book. What was the author's purpose for pitting these two against one another? What is significant about the comparisons between fantasy and reality?

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