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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. When was the happiest summer of Agnes's life?
(a) 1953.
(b) 1950.
(c) 1954.
(d) 1960.

2. What problem do the narrator and her husband have?
(a) Reading problems.
(b) Financial problems.
(c) Heart problems.
(d) Infertility.

3. What does Agnes do with her money from the book?
(a) Gives it to her parents.
(b) Buries it.
(c) Gambles it.
(d) Gives it to her brothers.

4. Who is the narrator's brother?
(a) Richard.
(b) Jean.
(c) Luke.
(d) Henry.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Fabienne tell Agnes when Agnes returns from Paris?

2. What does the public seem to think is extraordinary about Agnes?

3. What do Agnes's parents say M. Devaux will do soon?

4. How long does Agnes spend in Paris in Part II?

5. What does Fabienne say she and the narrator do not have enough experience for?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Agnes learn of Fabienne's death?

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

3. What does Agnes's and Fabienne's first book focus on?

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

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

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

7. What does Jean, Agnes's brother, struggle with?

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

9. Where do Fabienne and Agnes often go to be by themselves and talk?

10. Why do Agnes and Fabienne go to M. Devaux to help with their book?

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