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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Félicité's relationship to Mme. Aubain?
(a) Gardener.
(b) Mother.
(c) Housemaid.
(d) Daughter.

2. Why does Félicité run ten miles in her clogs?
(a) To see Virginie at school.
(b) To say goodbye to Paul.
(c) To tend to her sister during childbirth.
(d) To see Theodore.

3. How does Félicité meet her Polish suitor?
(a) Her sister introduces them.
(b) Nursing cholera victims and looking after refugees.
(c) He is a friend of Paul's.
(d) When he comes to beg Mme. Aubain for alms.

4. Why does Mme. Aubain have to sell the majority of her properties?
(a) Because her husband ran into debt.
(b) She needed money for her daughter's wedding.
(c) She wanted the money to travel.
(d) Her son lost them gambling.

5. What smell pervades the living room?
(a) Horses.
(b) Roses.
(c) Must.
(d) Fumes from the kitchen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mme. Aubain do that offends Félicité?

2. How does the narrator describe Félicité's room?

3. What is Félicité's defining act of heroism?

4. When the family rests in the field, what does Paul do?

5. What happens when Paul visits his mother?

(see the answer key)

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