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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, On Grammar: Chapters 1-6 and Profound Thought Nos. 9-11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Paloma decide to do for her next birthday?
(a) Tell her father she wants to go away to boarding school.
(b) Move to Canada.
(c) Run away.
(d) Commit suicide.

2. What does Paloma think of Maître Arthens?
(a) That he is not really dying.
(b) That he is a bad man.
(c) That he is going to hell.
(d) That he is kind.

3. What is the significance of building number 7 at rue de Grenelle?
(a) Where all the intelligentsia gather.
(b) Where Renee works.
(c) Where Renee once witnessed a murder.
(d) Where Renee lives.

4. Why is Paloma surprised that the new tenant wants to have tea with her mother?
(a) Because most of the tenents shun her mother.
(b) Because her mother is black.
(c) Because her mother's father was the commander in occupied Japan.
(d) Because her mother cannot speak English very well.

5. How does Renee feel about her marriage?
(a) Depressed.
(b) Stuck.
(c) She married well.
(d) Indifferent.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Paloma Josse?

2. Why of Paloma punished?

3. What does Renee suggest to the young man?

4. To what does Paloma feel that her family's wealth subject her?

5. What does Renee think will cause the young man to forget she said anything about Marx?

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