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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. What does a journalist admonish Agnes when she goes to Paris alone?
(a) Wait until she starts drinking.
(b) Wait until she starts smoking.
(c) Wait until she meets other writers.
(d) Wait until she meets older men.

2. Who comes to see Agnes's family in Part II?
(a) M. Miro.
(b) M. Picard.
(c) M. Chastain.
(d) M. Richarde.

3. What does the narrator say "corrupts"?
(a) Anger.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Time.
(d) Freedom.

4. Who tells the narrator of Fabienne's death?
(a) The narrator's mother.
(b) Her best friend.
(c) Fabienne's mother.
(d) Fabienne's father.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who requests that Agnes go to Paris alone in September?

2. What can you not cut an apple with?

3. What is the narrator's and Fabienne's first book about?

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

5. What does Agnes have for the first time in Paris?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Agnes describe her own marriage to Earl?

2. As childhood friends, what does Fabienne seem to think of Agnes?

3. What does Agnes briefly fear Fabienne might do to M. Devaux?

4. In what circumstance does Agnes say people would have no need for myths?

5. How does Agnes feel about her first trip to Paris?

6. Why does Fabienne want Agnes to actually physically write the book?

7. What do the people in Paris think of Agnes there?

8. What does Anges once tell Fabienne she thinks everyone fears?

9. Why does Fabienne think Agnes should be the "face" of their books?

10. What does Anges realize as an adult that Americans are quick to call someone?

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