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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is gossiping about Madame de Broglie?
(a) Manuela and a maid for the building next door.
(b) Renee and Manuela.
(c) Manuela and her husband.
(d) Renee and the maintenance man.

2. What astounds Renee by a note she receives about some dry cleaning?
(a) The writer includes "please" and "thank you."
(b) The note is on beautifully exquisite paper.
(c) The handwriting is exquisitely beautiful.
(d) The bad grammar.

3. What does a young man say about Marx to Renee Michel?
(a) That Marx made him incredibly depressed.
(b) That Marx was deluded.
(c) That Marx has changed the way he sees the world.
(d) That Marx was a lunatic.

4. How does Renee see Manuela in Manuela's current station in life?
(a) As thinking Manuela is less refined than Manuela pretends.
(b) As a perfect fit.
(c) As thinking Manuela is better than she is.
(d) As too refined.

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

6. Who is Neptune?
(a) A cat that lives in the alleyway near Renee's work.
(b) Madame de Broglie's dog.
(c) Manuela's Macaw.
(d) Madame de Broglie's cat.

7. Why does Manuela come early for tea?
(a) Because of Maître Arthens' condition.
(b) She has to be across town later that day.
(c) She wants to ask Renee's opinion about an outfit.
(d) She is excited to tell Renee something.

8. How does Renee feel when Pierre speaks to her?
(a) Excited.
(b) Embarrassed.
(c) Depressed.
(d) Annoyed.

9. What does Renee Michel do for a living?
(a) A writer.
(b) A baker.
(c) A concierge.
(d) A tram operator.

10. Where does Paloma hear a statement she thinks is totally wrong?
(a) A polo match.
(b) A formal family dinner.
(c) A church christening.
(d) A dinner party.

11. Who is Manuela?
(a) Renee's friend.
(b) Paloma's friend.
(c) A maid in a motel.
(d) The concierge in the building where Paloma lives.

12. How does Renee characterize that dog?
(a) Beautiful but helpless.
(b) Ugly but necessary.
(c) Friendly but bites.
(d) Ugly and useless.

13. What does Chabrot tell Renee about Maître Arthens?
(a) He is dying.
(b) He is ill and will be indisposed for a couple weeks.
(c) He is going into the hospital.
(d) He is moving.

14. What does Paloma feel about her true person?
(a) It's not the one people perceive.
(b) It is terribly constricted.
(c) It is pretty much the same as how people perceive her.
(d) It is terribly sad.

15. What do Renee's clients believe in common?
(a) They are extremely interesting.
(b) A concierge is so far below their social class they are unintelligent.
(c) They are entitled.
(d) They are dying.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why of Paloma punished?

2. What does Renee think of what she read of this author?

3. What does Renee feel art does?

4. What is Renee Michel's challenge?

5. Who does Manuela see on the steps?

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