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

2. What does the family do when it is particularly hot in Trouville?
(a) Stay inside.
(b) Go to the beach.
(c) Go to the baths.
(d) Sit in the shade and have a picnic.

3. Who does Félicité find while she is in Trouville?
(a) Her daughter.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Theodore.
(d) Her sister.

4. What is peculiar about Félicité's appearance?
(a) She has a limp.
(b) She doesn't have any teeth.
(c) She doesn't appear to age.
(d) She is a hunchback.

5. When Félicité was 25-years-old, how old did people think she was?
(a) Twenty-five.
(b) Fifteen.
(c) Forty.
(d) Sixty.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is piled on the piano?

2. What is Félicité's first job as a girl?

3. What does the narrator consider "a remainder of better days"?

4. How many properties does Mme. Aubain still own?

5. What is Félicité's relationship to Mme. Aubain?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is it significant that Félicité sleeps in her chair in front of the fire?

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

3. Explain the irony of Félicité's dismissal from her first job.

4. Why do you think Félicité's reaction to Virginie's first communion is so much more powerful than her reaction to her own first communion?

5. Why do you think it has such a big impact on Félicité when Mme. Aubain embraces her?

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

7. How do Mme. Aubain and Félicité's reactions to Virginie's departure differ from each other?

8. Describe the impression that the narrator gives you of Mme. Aubain's house.

9. What is your impression of Mme. Simon?

10. Why do you think Flaubert has Félicité run all the way to say goodbye to Victor only to miss him at the last?

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