View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does the woman in "The Hand" first notice the hands of her husband?

2. Where does the man in "The Hidden Woman" want his wife to go to?

3. What is Marco making a living doing in "The Kepi"?

4. What is the woman in "In the Flower of Age" find disappointing in the man she is dating?

5. Who does Marco start an affair with?

Short Essay Questions

1. "What happens in the country during "The Watchmen"?

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

3. What does the boy in "Sick Child" go back and forth between?

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

5. What does Colette discuss in "Green Sealing Wax"?

6. What are Clara and Antoinette rivals over in "The Rivals"?

7. Why does the man become jealous in "A Dead End"?

8. What does the man in "The Respite" have a respite from?

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

10. What are adolescents organizing in "April"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Colette's use of dialogue in her writing and why she uses dialogue from characters.

Essay Topic 2

Analyze Colette's focus on mundane or trivial events and what these minor events or items symbolize.

Essay Topic 3

Choose one positive female character described by Colette and why she does not do this at the expense of positive male characters.

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 688 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample