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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who reads to Félicité for the first time in her life?
2. What food item lasted Félicité 20 days?
3. Who offers advice about where Paul should go to school?
4. What is described as the despair of the other housemaids?
5. What kind of a wage does Félicité earn?
Short Essay Questions
1. Do you think that Félicité's final vision is religious or delusional? Does it matter?
2. What objects stand out in Félicité's collection of objects and what relationships can you find between them?
3. How is it significant that the parrot is being eaten by maggots, but Félicité neither knows nor cares?
4. At the beginning of the story, what does the narrator tell us about Mme. Aubain's history?
5. On the way to Trouville, Félicité overhears Liebard talking about the woman that Theodore left her to marry, but she does not hear the end of the story. What, if any, function does this have in the story?
6. How does Félicité understand the Holy Spirit?
7. What are some examples of times when Félicité has been abused or disregarded? Describe them and explain how she is being treated poorly.
8. How does Mme. Aubain respond to Félicité's reunion with her lost sister?
9. Why do you think that it struck Félicité as wrong that Mme. Aubain should die before she did?
10. What is your impression of Mme. Simon?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Consider the tone of the narrator in this story. Does the narrative guide your interpretations of events or is it a neutral voice? If you argue that it does, how? If you argue that it doesn't, how does it avoid commentary?
Essay Topic 2
In this text, the sacred is frequently paired with the worldly. This is certainly true in Félicité's room and in her religious impressions, but there are also traces of it elsewhere. Where else can you see this mix of the religious and the secular? What do you think Flaubert might have meant by it? Be sure to support your analysis with specific examples from the text.
Essay Topic 3
Consider the relationship between Félicité and Mme. Aubain. The culminating event in their relationship is, of course, the moment of embrace and equality, but several other things happen between them that helps to place each of them in a certain relationship to the world around them. Write an essay that considers the way that Félicité and Mme. Aubain's relationship helps to ground each of them in a clear relationship to their world. Some details you might want to look at are Mme. Aubain's treatment of Félicité's actual family and Félicité's sense that it was wrong for Mme. Aubain to die before she did.
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