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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the last thing Félicité does before going to sleep?
(a) Cover the fire with ashes.
(b) Read her bible.
(c) Write a letter to her sister.
(d) Pray.

2. What is Félicité's defining act of heroism?
(a) She saves Virginie from drowning.
(b) She protects Mme. Aubain and the children from a bull attack.
(c) She rescues the children from a band of gypsies.
(d) She protects the family from burglers.

3. How does Félicité feel after her heroic event?
(a) She focuses her attention on Virginie.
(b) She feels strangely sad.
(c) She is proud of herself.
(d) She cannot stop talking about it.

4. How does Virginie make the journey to Tocqueville?
(a) M. Liebard carries her on his horse with him.
(b) On a horse with Félicité.
(c) She walks.
(d) In a carriage with her mother.

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

6. What items did Félicité buy for her sister's family?
(a) Clothes and shoes.
(b) Winter coats and boots.
(c) A blanket, shirts, and stove.
(d) Mattresses for the children.

7. What happens to Mme. Aubain's husband?
(a) He's sent to jail.
(b) She leaves him.
(c) He dies.
(d) He leaves her.

8. Who does Félicité hear Liebard talk about from her past?
(a) The farmer she worked for as a girl.
(b) Her sister.
(c) Madame Lehoussais.
(d) Her mother.

9. What hangs above the piano?
(a) A barometer.
(b) Pressed flowers.
(c) A Degas painting.
(d) A family portrait.

10. Where is Mme. Aubain's house located?
(a) Next to a stable.
(b) In the country.
(c) Beside her old house.
(d) Behind the market.

11. What state is the furniture in the parlor in?
(a) Dilapidated.
(b) Clean.
(c) Covered in plastic.
(d) Draped in sheets.

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

13. What is unusual about the floors in Mme. Aubain's house?
(a) They are dirt.
(b) They are concrete.
(c) They are at different levels.
(d) They are marble.

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

15. Who looks after the management of Mme. Aubain's property?
(a) The Liebards.
(b) M. Bourais.
(c) Félicité.
(d) Mme. Aubain.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who struggles the most when Paul goes away?

2. What decoration is prominent in Mme. Aubain's bedroom?

3. What does Virginie do while the family is on their outing?

4. Who offers advice about where Paul should go to school?

5. What does Theodore do that makes marrying Félicité impossible?

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