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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 do the cafe customers complain about to the patronne at the end of Chapter 8?

2. What type of bird does the child look at just after the end of the music lesson in Chapter 5?

3. Who is the only person in the cafe during the child's music lesson in Chapter 5?

4. Who says, "she left when and how he wanted her to, although she wanted to stay"?

5. What do the dinner guests suggest is making Anne nauseous?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Anne and the child's walk home from the cafe at the end of Chapter 6.

2. How do Anne and the child react when the teacher asks that someone besides Anne bring him to his music lessons from then on?

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

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

5. What does Anne do after leaving the dinner party?

6. What do Anne and Chauvin talk about regarding the child when they first sit down in the cafe in Chapter 6?

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

8. Why does the teacher to tell Anne that she will no longer be able to give the child piano lessons?

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

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

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

Analyze the child's lack of obedience in the book. What reasons might the child have for misbehaving? What does his lack of obedience say about Anne's parenting?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the significance in physical contact in the book. What is the difference in the contact between Anne and her child and Anne and Chauvin? What might physical contact signify to these characters?

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