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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Joncour notice when his wife comes to kiss him goodnight?
(a) That her smile is vacant.
(b) That her hair falls over her shoulder.
(c) That her eyes are brown.
(d) That her nightgown falls open.

2. When Helene vacations with her husband in the villa by the sea, what does she think it will do?
(a) Help her to forget Baldabiou.
(b) Help her to have a baby.
(c) Help her to feel younger.
(d) Help her husband's melancholy humor.

3. What does Joncour hear when the procession with the mistress goes by him?
(a) Bells.
(b) The music of the musical instrument.
(c) The fabric in the wind.
(d) The sound of gunfire.

4. What advice does Madame Blanche give to Joncour about the letters?
(a) To shower his wife with gifts.
(b) To forget the mistress and be happy.
(c) To return to Japan for the mistress.
(d) To take a long vacation.

5. How many days does Joncour wait for Hara Kei's emissary on the fourth trip?
(a) 5 days.
(b) 1 week.
(c) 1 month.
(d) 41 days.

6. What do the letters say at the end?
(a) "We will not see each other anymore."
(b) "Have many children with your wife."
(c) "Go to the lake and think of me."
(d) "I am with Hara Kei now."

7. Where does Joncour say the eggs hatched on his return fourth trip from Japan?
(a) Lake Baikal.
(b) Japan.
(c) Eberfield.
(d) Somewhere in northern China.

8. Where does Joncour take the letter to be translated?
(a) China.
(b) Kiev.
(c) Madame Blanche's.
(d) Paris.

9. Where is the envelope from?
(a) Kiev.
(b) Luxemborg.
(c) Ostend.
(d) Ciaro.

10. How long does Joncour stay at the village of Hara Kei on the fourth trip, surveying the damage?
(a) For a week.
(b) He leaves immediately.
(c) For days.
(d) For hours.

11. What does Baldabiou think Joncour is doing with the house he buys?
(a) That he's going crazy.
(b) That he's looking for something.
(c) That it is a good hobby.
(d) That he's happy at last.

12. What does Joncour draw designs for after he buys the other house?
(a) A garden.
(b) A cloister.
(c) A chapel.
(d) An aviary.

13. What does the Frenchman, Chardonnet, do?
(a) Finds the silkworm disease.
(b) Develops a silkworm egg as good as Japan.
(c) Works with microscopes.
(d) Patents artificial silk.

14. Where do the two Italians get good eggs from?
(a) Japan.
(b) China.
(c) Syria.
(d) Egypt.

15. Why does Baldabiou NOT want to send Joncour back to Japan for a fourth trip?
(a) Because it's so dangerous.
(b) Because he is in love with Helene.
(c) Because he knows Joncour is having an affair.
(d) Because he does not want to pay him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What activities do Helene and Joncour do while staying at the villa?

2. Who could Baldabiou NOT tell a lie to about Joncour wanting to go to Japan for the fourth trip?

3. What does Joncour do in the house he buys?

4. When the boy appears in the village of Hara Kei on the fourth trip, what does he give to Joncour?

5. What does Madame Blanche say about Japan?

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