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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. Where is Mme. Aubain's house located?
2. What is Félicité's relationship to Mme. Aubain?
3. What are some of Félicité's chores?
4. What new activity do Félicité and Virginie begin at Christmas time?
5. What particularly bothered Mme. Aubain about the way that Félicité's family behaved?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why do you think the narrator conceals the real cause of Loulou's death?
2. How do Félicité and Mme. Aubain react to Virginie's death?
3. How does Félicité understand the Holy Spirit?
4. How does Flaubert choose to describe the procession of Corpus Christi and Félicité's death? What affect does this have?
5. At the beginning of the story, what does the narrator tell us about Mme. Aubain's history?
6. Describe and provide an analysis of Mme. Aubain's reaction when Félicité tells her that she hasn't heard from Victor in six months.
7. 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?
8. How does Félicité feel about Loulou before she begins to go deaf? How do you know?
9. What do you think Félicité means when she says of Victor's death that "'It doesn't matter a bit, not to them it doesn't'"?
10. What objects stand out in Félicité's collection of objects and what relationships can you find between them?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Compare and contrast Virginie and Victor. Félicité considers them to share the same place in her heart. What similarities of character and situation contribute to this sense for the reader? What differences distinguish them?
Essay Topic 2
Love is an important theme in "A Simple Heart." How could you argue that love is actually the central subject of this story?
Essay Topic 3
The procession of Corpus Christi recurs in this story and is a critical aspect of the imagery in the final chapter. In what ways does the significance of this particular celebration relate to the important themes in this story? You should definitely consider how it might mirror Félicité's understanding of religion, but you may also consider and discuss any other relationships that strike you. Be sure to refer to specific examples from the text in your analysis.
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