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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. How is Félicité's stance described?
(a) Hunched.
(b) Weak.
(c) Limping.
(d) Upright.
2. What smell pervades the living room?
(a) Must.
(b) Roses.
(c) Fumes from the kitchen.
(d) Horses.
3. How does Paul make the journey to Tocqueville?
(a) On a donkey.
(b) On horseback.
(c) In a carriage.
(d) On foot.
4. What is described as the despair of the other housemaids?
(a) The spotless state of Félicité's saucepans.
(b) The draper's son.
(c) Mme. Aubain's temper.
(d) Félicité's loyalty to her mistress.
5. Who reads to Félicité for the first time in her life?
(a) Mme. Aubain.
(b) Paul.
(c) M. Bourais.
(d) Virginie.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is Félicité's defining act of heroism?
2. What cure does the doctor recommend for Virginie's nervous complaint?
3. What is peculiar about Félicité's appearance?
4. What is unusual about the floors in Mme. Aubain's house?
5. What is the last thing Félicité does before going to sleep?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the narrator say about Félicité's age and appearance and why might this be an important detail?
2. Why does Mme. Simon nurse Félicité as she is dying?
3. Why do you think that it struck Félicité as wrong that Mme. Aubain should die before she did?
4. What is the irony of Félicité's long search for Loulou?
5. Why do you think Félicité is hurt by people's jokes about Loulou?
6. How is Félicité introduced to the reader in the first chapter?
7. Why does Félicité offer the parrot for the altar in the Corpus Christi celebration?
8. Why do you think the narrator conceals the real cause of Loulou's death?
9. To what extent would you say that this story is about Félicité? What do you think Flaubert wanted to say by writing a short story about a person like Félicité?
10. How does Félicité understand the Holy Spirit?
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