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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Catherine an expert at?
(a) Computers
(b) Painting
(c) Chess
(d) Music

2. Who is the father of Mireille's child?
(a) The Bishop
(b) Napoleon
(c) God
(d) David

3. How do Miereille and Valentine feel at the opera?
(a) Disgusted
(b) Shy
(c) Excited
(d) Overwhelmed

4. What did Catherine do instead of sleeping when she returned to her hotel after Sharrif took her there?
(a) Try to make contact with Solarin
(b) Study books on mathematics
(c) Research OPEC
(d) Think of a way to get in to see Kamel

5. What does Solarin call which is against all of the rules of chess?
(a) Forfiet
(b) Intermission
(c) Restart
(d) J'adoube

6. What does Harry want Catherine to help him do?
(a) Find safe passage to Algeria
(b) Get pieces from Charlamagne's chess set
(c) Locate his missing relative in Algeria
(d) Smuggle new historical relics into Algeria

7. What did Blanche write on the cocktail napkin she hands to Catherine?
(a) The fortune teller's prophecy
(b) A wish for safe passage
(c) Her phone number
(d) Information about Harry

8. What year is it when the novel opens?
(a) 1800
(b) 1750
(c) 1790
(d) 1700

9. What does the Arab soldier tell Charlemagne and Garin a blood wager will bring to the person making the wager?
(a) Paradise on Earth
(b) Immortality
(c) Never ending wealth
(d) Death

10. Where does the Bishop meet Camille?
(a) Home of Catherine the Great
(b) Home of Robespierre
(c) Home of Valentine and Mireille
(d) The Abbey

11. How long is Solarin given to complete his mission?
(a) 12 hours
(b) 2 days
(c) 1 week
(d) 24 hours

12. To what year has the author returned the reader?
(a) 1900
(b) 1972
(c) 1791
(d) 1850

13. What does Catherine catch Lily lying about?
(a) Catherine's painting skills
(b) Chess set location
(c) Mordecai's occupation
(d) Chauffeur resigning

14. How many narrative lines does the author use in this novel?
(a) 1
(b) 4
(c) 3
(d) 2

15. What relation is Mordecai to Harry?
(a) Son
(b) Father
(c) Brother
(d) Grandfather

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the person that the Bishop says wants to gain control of the service?

2. What sport did Charlemagne play frequently and even put a sign in reference to in the convent?

3. What is Fiske using to transmit?

4. How does Germaine convince Camille that she must be spared the trials and executions?

5. What does the Abbess show Catherine on her palm?

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