View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of what does Mlle Louise warn the young priest?
(a) Mlle Chantal's hatred toward him
(b) The seriousness of digestive illnesses
(c) The gossip of the altar society
(d) The parish council's demand for his resignation

2. The canon warns the priest about misusing __________.
(a) food
(b) alcohol
(c) power
(d) tobacco

3. Where does the doctor examine the priest?
(a) In his home
(b) In a clinic
(c) In his office
(d) In the hospital

4. When does the young priest feel youthful for the first time in his life?
(a) Walking on a spring morning
(b) Playing soccer with the school boys
(c) Riding on M. Olivier's motorbike
(d) Lying in a field of flowers

5. Why is Seraphita sad when she talks to the priest?
(a) She broke up with her boyfriend
(b) She told Mlle Chantal about caring for the priest on the road
(c) She has flunked math
(d) She will not be having a graduation party

6. What is the content of the letter Mme la Comtesse sends to the priest?
(a) She is at peace with her life
(b) She is sending some bottles of wine
(c) She is not sending Mlle Chantal to boarding school
(d) She invites him for lunch at the Chateau

7. What does the priest tell Mme la Comtesse about her daughter?
(a) She may try to harm herself
(b) She has run away
(c) She is in love with a boy at school
(d) She is pregnant

8. What does the Cure de Torcy tell the priest about Mlle Chantal?
(a) She has run away from home
(b) She has killed her father
(c) She eavesdropped on the conversation between the priest and her mother
(d) She has fired the governess

9. What does Mlle Chantal tell M. le Comte in front of the priest?
(a) That the music for the funeral has been decided
(b) That she hates her father
(c) That the priest tried to seduce her
(d) To dismiss the governess, Mlle Louise, immediately

10. What happens to the priest one day as he is making his visits to parishioners?
(a) He gets lost
(b) He decides to quit early
(c) He faints and coughs up blood
(d) He has a picnic lunch

11. What does the priest note about himself at the beginning of Chapter 6?
(a) He has a wart on his right hand
(b) His hair is thinning
(c) He needs new shoes
(d) His short-term memory is getting bad

12. Who does the priest visit on the evening he gets his diagnosis?
(a) Sulpice
(b) M. le Comte
(c) Louis Duprety
(d) Cure de Torcy

13. Without the priest's assistance, Mme la Comtesse would have died _________________________.
(a) without the Last Rites
(b) with hatred toward God
(c) happily
(d) a long, painful death

14. What torments the priest at the beginning of Chapter 5?
(a) The vindictive parishioners
(b) His inability to pray
(c) The gossiping girls
(d) The suicide of Dr. Delbende

15. What makes the priest feel uncomfortable?
(a) The instruments are too cold
(b) The room is too hot
(c) The doctor's arrogance
(d) Being naked

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the priest do regarding his health this morning?

2. What does the priest hear on a walk to Mezargues?

3. Where is the priest at the beginning of Chapter 8?

4. Why does the priest tell Seraphita that he is sad?

5. To what has Mme la Comtesse adapted in her life?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 573 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample