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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is Félicité's first job when she starts working for Mme. Aubain?
(a) Cook.
(b) Governess.
(c) Dairy maid.
(d) Lady's maid.

4. How long does Félicité's family stay on their first visit?
(a) 45 minutes.
(b) 1 hour.
(c) 15 minutes.
(d) 2 hours.

5. Why does the family move back home?
(a) Paul needed to prepare to leave for school.
(b) Félicité had to return to tend to seasonal work.
(c) Virginie's cough resumed.
(d) Mme. Aubain missed her house.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Mme. Aubain's husband described?

2. How long have Félicité and Mme. Aubain been in this relationship?

3. How is the Liebards' place in Troqueville described?

4. What kind of a mantle is in the living room?

5. What is described as the despair of the other housemaids?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do you think Félicité never talks about how worried she feels for Victor?

2. Think back on the story as a whole. What do you think is the major theme and why?

3. How does Félicité begin to confuse or associate the parrot with the Holy Spirit?

4. Describe and provide an analysis of Mme. Aubain's reaction when Félicité tells her that she hasn't heard from Victor in six months.

5. Why do you think the narrator conceals the real cause of Loulou's death?

6. What objects stand out in Félicité's collection of objects and what relationships can you find between them?

7. How does Mme. Aubain respond to Félicité's reunion with her lost sister?

8. How is it significant that the parrot is being eaten by maggots, but Félicité neither knows nor cares?

9. Why does Mme. Simon nurse Félicité as she is dying?

10. What does the narrator say about Félicité's age and appearance and why might this be an important detail?

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