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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) Low.
(b) Moderate.
(c) Fair.
(d) Generous.

2. When the family rests in the field, what does Paul do?
(a) He chases animals with his bow.
(b) He lays out the picnic.
(c) He plays cards.
(d) He is bored and itches to move on.

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

4. What new activity do Félicité and Virginie begin at Christmas time?
(a) They begin piano lessons.
(b) They begin to go to catechism.
(c) They join a choir.
(d) They begin to learn English.

5. What does Virginie do while the family is on their outing?
(a) Feeds rabbits and gathers cornflowers.
(b) Entertains Paul.
(c) Sits quietly with her mother and Félicité.
(d) Sunbathes.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long does Félicité's family stay on their first visit?

2. What happens to Mme. Aubain's husband?

3. What was the most exciting part of the day in Trouville?

4. What cure does the doctor recommend for Virginie's nervous complaint?

5. Who looks after the management of Mme. Aubain's property?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Do you think that Félicité's final vision is religious or delusional? Does it matter?

3. Why does Félicité offer the parrot for the altar in the Corpus Christi celebration?

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

5. Does it seem surprising that Félicité's voice is shrill? Why do you think this detail is included in her description?

6. At the beginning of the story, what does the narrator tell us about Mme. Aubain's history?

7. What is the irony of Félicité's long search for Loulou?

8. Why do you think that it struck Félicité as wrong that Mme. Aubain should die before she did?

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

10. How do Félicité and Mme. Aubain react to Virginie's death?

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