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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Paloma realize about words?
(a) It is words that have power, not deeds.
(b) Words are overvalued, but useful to an extent.
(c) Words are useless.
(d) The same word has a different meaning to different people.

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

3. What does Pierre ask of Renee?
(a) For her to show him how to cook eggs.
(b) For her to put a boot cleaner in the lobby.
(c) For her to bring him a package when it's delivered.
(d) For her to run down the street for him.

4. How is Neptune described?
(a) Condescending.
(b) Raucous.
(c) Sad and deprived.
(d) Sickly.

5. What is Renee Michel's challenge?
(a) A controlling mother.
(b) Wealth.
(c) Below average looks.
(d) Poverty.

6. For how long has Renee worked in one place?
(a) 2 years.
(b) 20 years.
(c) 10 years.
(d) 11 years.

7. What is Manuela always scheming to do?
(a) Marry a rich man.
(b) Move to Canada.
(c) Move to the United States.
(d) Go back to her country.

8. What surprised Renee about her husband?
(a) That he was so intelligent.
(b) That he was interested in her.
(c) That he was rather kind.
(d) That he was very eccentric.

9. Why does Paloma think is interesting regarding Maître Arthens?
(a) That he had a priest come to his death bed.
(b) That he never said a kind word to anyone.
(c) That his two children turned out to be such good people.
(d) That news of his death causes such excitement throughout the building.

10. What does Renee feel art does?
(a) Connects people of different backgrounds.
(b) Provides an escape.
(c) Gives meaning to life.
(d) Uplifts a dreary life.

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

12. How does Renee perceive that Arthens speaks to her?
(a) As though she is unintelligent.
(b) As though he is flirting with her.
(c) As though she reads minds.
(d) As though she is his servant.

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

14. Which of Tolstoy's books does Renee love in particular?
(a) Anna Karenina.
(b) The Power of Darkness.
(c) The Cossacks.
(d) War and Peace.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What breed is Athena?

2. Who has Renee studied recently?

3. What does Renee follow up on to distract the young man?

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

5. What was Arthens' son's problem?

(see the answer keys)

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