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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is Mme. Aubain's husband described?
(a) Handsome but impecunious.
(b) Kind but careless with money.
(c) Cruel and extravagant.
(d) A rake and a spendthrift.

2. What is peculiar about Félicité's appearance?
(a) She doesn't have any teeth.
(b) She doesn't appear to age.
(c) She has a limp.
(d) She is a hunchback.

3. How is Félicité's stance described?
(a) Weak.
(b) Upright.
(c) Hunched.
(d) Limping.

4. What is described as the despair of the other housemaids?
(a) The spotless state of Félicité's saucepans.
(b) Mme. Aubain's temper.
(c) The draper's son.
(d) Félicité's loyalty to her mistress.

5. What does the narrator consider "a remainder of better days"?
(a) Mme. Aubain's children.
(b) Mme. Aubain's clothing.
(c) Drawings and etchings.
(d) The house.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator describes Félicité as being made out of what material?

2. What hangs above the piano?

3. Where is Félicité's bedroom?

4. What is piled on the piano?

5. What is unusual about the children's beds?

(see the answer key)

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