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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 kind of a wage does Félicité earn?
(a) Fair.
(b) Generous.
(c) Low.
(d) Moderate.
2. When Félicité was 25-years-old, how old did people think she was?
(a) Forty.
(b) Twenty-five.
(c) Sixty.
(d) Fifteen.
3. What does the family do when it is particularly hot in Trouville?
(a) Go to the baths.
(b) Sit in the shade and have a picnic.
(c) Stay inside.
(d) Go to the beach.
4. What hangs above the piano?
(a) A Degas painting.
(b) A barometer.
(c) A family portrait.
(d) Pressed flowers.
5. What does Virginie do while the family is on their outing?
(a) Entertains Paul.
(b) Sits quietly with her mother and Félicité.
(c) Sunbathes.
(d) Feeds rabbits and gathers cornflowers.
Short Answer Questions
1. How does Virginie make the journey to Tocqueville?
2. Which relative of Mme. Aubain's frequently comes to visit?
3. How does Félicité feel after her heroic event?
4. What was Mme. Aubain's annual income?
5. Why does Felicite leave the farm she was working at while she dated Theodore?
Short Essay Questions
1. What objects stand out in Félicité's collection of objects and what relationships can you find between them?
2. Why do you think the narrator conceals the real cause of Loulou's death?
3. Why do you think Flaubert has Félicité run all the way to say goodbye to Victor only to miss him at the last?
4. What does the narrator say about Félicité's age and appearance and why might this be an important detail?
5. Does Victor seem to genuinely care for Félicité or is he only interested in taking things from her?
6. What is your impression of Mme. Simon?
7. How is Félicité introduced to the reader in the first chapter?
8. Describe the impression that the narrator gives you of Mme. Aubain's house.
9. How is it significant that the parrot is being eaten by maggots, but Félicité neither knows nor cares?
10. Why do you think it has such a big impact on Félicité when Mme. Aubain embraces her?
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