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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the act of throwing the medallion into the fire symbolize for Mme la Comtesse?
(a) Casting off disappointments and bitterness
(b) She has a horrible temper
(c) She has gone mad
(d) She wants some new jewelry

2. To what does the doctor not pay as much attention as the priest thinks he should?
(a) His lungs
(b) His throat
(c) His heart
(d) His leg

3. What does the priest decide to do at the Chateau?
(a) Work in the vineyard
(b) Stay for dinner
(c) Talk to Mme la Comte about her daughter
(d) Hold mass in the chapel

4. What is in the medallion around Mme la Comtesse's neck?
(a) A lock of her son's hair
(b) An emerald
(c) A dried flower
(d) A photograph

5. What does the canon see on the priest's kitchen table?
(a) A diary
(b) A bowl of fruit
(c) A bottle of wine
(d) Dirty dishes

6. What does Mme la Comtesse throw into the fire?
(a) Her wine glass
(b) Dinner scraps
(c) Kindling
(d) Her medallion

7. Where is the priest at the beginning of Chapter 8?
(a) At home
(b) The doctor's office
(c) Saying mass
(d) A pub

8. What disease does the priest think he has?
(a) Diabetes
(b) Mesothelioma
(c) Heart Disease
(d) Consumption

9. Why does the priest tell Seraphita that he is sad?
(a) He has a terminal illness
(b) His mother has died
(c) Mme la Comtesse's death has been hard on him
(d) Because people do not love God enough

10. What secret does Mme la Comtesse tell the priest?
(a) She had a son who died at 18 months
(b) She was pregnant when she married
(c) The family has run out of money
(d) Her husband is not the father of her daughter

11. What does the priest contemplate at the beginning of Chapter 5?
(a) Surrendering his parish
(b) Revising the catechism curriculum
(c) Leaving the priesthood
(d) Holding a fundraiser

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

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

14. What is the only beverage the priest drinks now?
(a) Water
(b) Wine
(c) Coffee
(d) Tea

15. What does the priest do with the letter taken from Mlle Chantal?
(a) Gives it back to her
(b) Puts it in his pocket
(c) Throws it into the fire
(d) Translates it into English

Short Answer Questions

1. What surprises the priest about the doctor?

2. Why does Mlle Louise come to the priest in a disheveled state?

3. What does the priest tell Mme la Comtesse about her daughter?

4. Who comes to catechism class with a limp?

5. What were the priest's last words?

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