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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 does Andi buy to send to her mother?

2. What type of building does her father's friend live in?

3. Where does Andi's father want to put her mother?

4. What is the nickname of Andi's father's friend?

5. What troubles do Andi and her father run into at the airport?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to Alex once she and her family move to the French city of Versailles?

2. What story does G tell Andi about the French Revolution when she meets him?

3. Who are G and Lili?

4. What is the deal Andi strikes with her father?

5. Why do fireworks make Louis-Charles both happy and sad?

6. What is Andi's senior thesis?

7. What do we know about Andi's brother, Truman?

8. How does Andi's guitar allow her to make money and meet a new friend?

9. Why does Andi want to return to New York so badly?

10. What is life like for Alex as her story begins?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1) How does Andi's story of her brother's death parallel Alex's story of the fate of Louis-Charles?

2) Did Andi cause her brothers death? How did she contribute to it?

3) Did Alex cause Louis-Charles' death? How did she contribute to it?

4) Was either girl able to make up for the harm they caused? If so, how?

5) How is Andi's discovery of Alex's diary fate?

Essay Topic 2

Andi meets two new people during her time in Paris, Jules and Virgil.

1) Who are these two young men?

2) How has Andi's love of music lead her to these friendships?

3) What does Andi have in common with Jules and Virgil?

4) Why does Virgil feel that Andi may not accept him? What does this say about modern France?

Essay Topic 3

As Alex's story unfolds it becomes clear that the Duc d' Orleans is a formidable antagonist.

1) Who is the Duc.

2) What does he want?

3) How does he use Alex's relationship with the prince to his advantage?

4) What role does the Duc play in the Terror of September 1792?

5) What happens to the Duc as the revolution moves forward?

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