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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 Colette want in "The Photographer's Wife"?
(a) To have her dress fixed.
(b) To have her dog examined by a veterinarian.
(c) To meet the woman who sent her a letter.
(d) To have her pearl neckless re-stringed.

2. What does Armande display by walking beside her injured lover according to Colette in "Armande"?
(a) A guilty conscience.
(b) Neediness.
(c) Devotion.
(d) Reverence.

3. Why is Colette angry at herself for at the end of "Bella-Vista"?
(a) For not taking her husband with her.
(b) For leaving her typewriter at home.
(c) For listening to the advice of the friend who recommended the inn.
(d) For not coming sooner.

4. What does Colette think of in "Bygone Springs"?
(a) July.
(b) May.
(c) June.
(d) April.

5. Who were the characters of "The Portrait" in love with?
(a) The same man.
(b) Two British gentlemen.
(c) Brothers.
(d) Two blonde men.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the woman in "The Judge" cross for?

2. Where does Madame Arnaud live in "The Photographer's Wife"?

3. Where does Colette try to convince her friend to spend time at in "The Tender Shoot"?

4. Who does the couple in "The Other Wife" see in a restaurant?

5. Who owns the countryside inn Colette goes to in "Bella-Vista"?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Colette become irked in "Bella-Vista"?

2. What does Marco do as a joke and what happens as a result?

3. What does the country doctor in "The Patriarch" experience?

4. What are adolescents organizing in "April"?

5. How does Maxine become convinced that Armande loves him in "Armande"?

6. How is the relationship between two men ruined in "The Fox"?

7. What does an aging woman imagine in "The Judge"?

8. What does "In the Flower of Age" describe?

9. Why does Bernard end an affair in "The Rendezvous"?

10. What is Madame Arnaud forthcoming about in "The Photographer's Wife"?

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