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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 17-18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What year is it when the novel begins?
(a) 1910.
(b) 1761.
(c) 1861.
(d) 1801.

2. What does Baldabiou say it is like to hold Japanese silk?
(a) It is like air.
(b) It is as soft as a baby's cheek.
(c) It is rough.
(d) It is like holding nothing.

3. What does Joncour do for the rest of the year when he's not working?
(a) He plays with his children.
(b) He rests.
(c) He writes on his novel.
(d) He reads to his wife.

4. When Joncour asks Baldabiou where Japan is, what does Baldabiou say?
(a) "Where danger lives."
(b) "Half-way around the world."
(c) "Right to the end of the world."
(d) "Where it smells like spices."

5. Who bands together to pay for Joncour's expedition to Japan?
(a) The entire town.
(b) All of the silk manufacturers.
(c) The king.
(d) The mayor and other politicians.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Helene's most beautiful attribute?

2. What novel is Flaubert writing at the time in the novel?

3. What does Helene do with the gift that Joncour gives her after his first trip to Japan?

4. What happens to the town of Lavilledieu when the silk eggs fail?

5. What plant do the silk eggs live on as they hatch?

(see the answer key)

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