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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What activities do Helene and Joncour do while staying at the villa?
(a) They sit on the shore and soak up the sun.
(b) They gamble.
(c) They take carriage rides and explore the town.
(d) They dance the nights away.

2. What day does Joncour leave for his fourth trip to Japan?
(a) June 10th, 1896.
(b) October 10, 1864.
(c) November 18th, 1869.
(d) July 16th, 1890.

3. What tone are the letters written in?
(a) A bland tone.
(b) A happy tone.
(c) A sexual tone.
(d) An excited tone.

4. What does Joncour find when he arrives at the port of Shirakawa on his fourth (last) trip to Japan?
(a) The boats are all gone.
(b) All of the ships are crowded.
(c) Half of the port is destroyed.
(d) The water is too high and there is flooding.

5. Where is Madame Blanche living at the end of the novel?
(a) Kiev.
(b) Paris.
(c) London.
(d) The Riviera.

6. Who is the youngest daughter named after?
(a) The Mother Mary.
(b) Helene's mother.
(c) Joncour's mother.
(d) Saint Agnes.

7. What does Louis Pasteur decide about the silk egg production in Chapter 41?
(a) He thinks that 30 percent of the eggs will be healthy.
(b) He thinks that he can cure the eggs.
(c) He thinks that it is hopeless.
(d) He tinks that 50 percent of the eggs will be bad.

8. What does Joncour do in the house he buys?
(a) He cleans it up.
(b) He sits.
(c) He empties it out.
(d) He re-paints.

9. What is the date that Joncour gets off the train to open the eggs on his fourth trip?
(a) July 13th, 1865.
(b) May 6th, 1865.
(c) August 15th, 1865.
(d) June 1st. 1865.

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

11. What does the opening of the Suez Canal do for the trip to Japan?
(a) From France to Japan now only takes 3 months.
(b) Makes the trip only 20 days long.
(c) Joncour can now take a boat the entire way.
(d) Makes the trip rougher.

12. When Joncour arrives at the empty house of Hara Kei the morning after the party, what does he find in the aviary?
(a) Hundreds of birds.
(b) The cage is empty.
(c) Flowers.
(d) Small furry animals.

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

14. Who makes the decision to go back to Japan for the fourth trip?
(a) Baldabiou.
(b) Joncour.
(c) Helene.
(d) The silk manufacturers.

15. To Hara Kei, what is the boy who helps Joncour find the procession?
(a) He is the devil.
(b) He is life itself.
(c) He is a spirit to be ignored.
(d) He is the message of love.

Short Answer Questions

1. For the letters to be translated, Joncour must promise what?

2. Where do the two Italians get good eggs from?

3. What does Joncour find on Helene's grave 2 months after she dies?

4. When Joncour gets off the train and opens the eggs on his way home on the fourth trip, what does he find?

5. Whose house does Joncour buy?

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