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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Fabienne tell Agnes when Agnes returns from Paris?
(a) Fabienne's father died.
(b) Fabienne thinks she knows what it means not to be a virgin.
(c) Fabienne likes to eat meat.
(d) Fabienne is running away.

2. What, in general, are people often to the narrator?
(a) Boring.
(b) Sinister.
(c) Kind.
(d) Hideous or tedious.

3. What does Fabienne often call the narrator?
(a) An idiot.
(b) A fiend.
(c) A genius.
(d) An angel.

4. What does every story have?
(a) A middle.
(b) A ghost.
(c) An end.
(d) An expiration date.

5. Who does the narrator meet in Paris?
(a) M. Ministeri.
(b) M. Perret.
(c) M. Jerrot.
(d) M. Filkin.

6. What is the most inexplicable think about childhood, according to Agnes?
(a) Singing.
(b) Hatred.
(c) Friendship.
(d) Eating.

7. What does Fabienne say she and the narrator do not have enough experience for?
(a) Loving one another.
(b) Having sex.
(c) Writing books.
(d) Traveling.

8. How is Agnes's hotel dinner served?
(a) On a plastic plate.
(b) It is not served.
(c) On a silver tray with domed lid.
(d) On a white tablecloth.

9. Who is the narrator's best friend.
(a) Madeline.
(b) Robin.
(c) Stella.
(d) Fabienne.

10. How does Fabienne die?
(a) Murder.
(b) Childbirth.
(c) Cancer.
(d) Heart attack.

11. What did M. Devaux once write himself?
(a) Plays.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Letters.
(d) Poems.

12. Who takes Fabienne's picture in her village in Part II?
(a) M. Bazin.
(b) M. Richarde.
(c) M. Miro.
(d) M. Picard.

13. What is the narrator's and Fabienne's first book about?
(a) WWI.
(b) The vegetable garden.
(c) Love.
(d) Dead babies.

14. How long does Agnes spend in Paris in Part II?
(a) 2 days.
(b) 9 days.
(c) 8 days.
(d) 4 days.

15. What does Agnes pay attention to when something big happens?
(a) The ground.
(b) The water.
(c) The voices.
(d) The sky.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many stories are in the narrator's and Fabienne's first book?

2. What can you not cut an apple with?

3. When was the happiest summer of Agnes's life?

4. What does Fabienne say a book should bear?

5. Who investigates Fabienne's claims about M. Devaux?

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