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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does Mme la Comte say her daughter is being sent away?
(a) She is jealous of her governess
(b) She needs an advanced education
(c) She wants to travel
(d) She wants her to find a rich husband

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

4. 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

5. How does the priest keep track of recent events?
(a) Writes on napkins and scraps of paper
(b) Writes them in his diary
(c) Records them
(d) Dictates to a secretary

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

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

8. What does the priest hear on a walk to Mezargues?
(a) Fighting
(b) Birds
(c) Laughing
(d) A motorbike

9. What does M. le Comte find in the priest's papers that upsets him?
(a) Mme la Comtesse's letter
(b) The church budget
(c) His resignation
(d) A written confession

10. What does Mme la Comtesse tell the priest about her husband?
(a) He is a homosexual
(b) He has had many affairs
(c) He is a devoted husband
(d) He has a terminal illness

11. Where did the priest go immediately after his doctor's appointment?
(a) A pub
(b) A church
(c) A restaurant
(d) A movie

12. What does the priest force Mme la Comtesse to acknowledge?
(a) The devil
(b) Her sins
(c) God
(d) Her husband's sins

13. Where is the doctor that the young priest wants to see?
(a) Paris
(b) Lille
(c) Nice
(d) Cannes

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

15. Why does the Cure de Torcy scold the priest regarding Mme la Comtesse?
(a) For not hearing the woman's confession
(b) For not giving the woman the Last Rites
(c) For not writing down the notes from the meeting
(d) For letting her throw the memento of her son into the fire

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the priest contemplate at the beginning of Chapter 5?

2. What surprises the priest about the doctor?

3. What is the only beverage the priest drinks now?

4. What does the priest tell Mlle Louise to do?

5. Who is the priest's doctor in Lille?

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