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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who are Levin and Kitty?
(a) Paloma's cousins.
(b) The only other children in the building.
(c) Brother and sister who come by the building every morning with the newspapers.
(d) Kakuro's cats.

2. What book does Kakuro give Renee?
(a) An expensive copy of A Tale of Two Cities.
(b) An expensive copy of Barbet.
(c) An expensive copy of Middlemarch.
(d) An expensive copy of Anna Karenina.

3. Who is Yoko?
(a) Paloma's school friend.
(b) Kakuro's great-niece.
(c) Paloma's cousin's maid.
(d) Kakuro's granddaughter.

4. What does Paloma's mother ask Renee?
(a) If Renee knows the young man who is the concierge in the next building.
(b) If Paloma may help Renee in her duties.
(c) If it is alright for Paloma to spend time at Renee's apartment.
(d) If Renee is dating Kakuro.

5. Why is Manuela excited about being retained by Kakura?
(a) He wants her to reside in his apartment complex.
(b) He has few demands.
(c) He has a good-looking cook about her age.
(d) He gave her raise.

6. What do Paloma and Kakuro decide to do?
(a) Become friends.
(b) Find out who Renee really is.
(c) Read and discuss a book a week.
(d) Walk in the park daily together.

7. What makes Paloma wonder what else a person might ignore?
(a) When Kakuro ignores someone who mutters something about Japanese.
(b) When the two people she observes in a fight both ignore their right hands.
(c) When Paloma's father ignores a terribly hungry person on the street.
(d) When Renee pretends she hears no insults from a tenant.

8. What does Renee think about concerning art?
(a) Its incongruence.
(b) Its ability to heal.
(c) Its inconsistency.
(d) Its way of soothing stress.

9. Why does Renee wear a handkerchief to work?
(a) To hide her new hair style.
(b) To hide her hair that needs cut.
(c) It matches her dress.
(d) To keep a man from the next building from bothering her.

10. What does Paloma wonder what might be the true movement of the world?
(a) Hands clasping each other.
(b) The sound of the ocean waves.
(c) Voices raised in song.
(d) Piano music.

11. What does Paloma tell Renee Paloma knows about the woman?
(a) That Renee is quite intelligent.
(b) That Renee is lonely.
(c) That Kakuro is sweet on Renee.
(d) That Kakuro is sweet on Manuela.

12. What does a courier deliver to Renee?
(a) A small cat statue.
(b) An expensive book.
(c) A pair of tickets.
(d) An invitation.

13. What bothers Renee a little about the dress Manuela borrows for her?
(a) It seems a little revealing.
(b) It seems to flashy.
(c) It was made for a woman who is now deceased.
(d) It isvery expensive.

14. What discussion takes place at Renee's apartment?
(a) The differences between French and English cultures.
(b) The differences between film and literature.
(c) The difference between and good and bad death.
(d) The reason the average person resents the wealthy.

15. What does Renee thinks offers more continuity in a house than conventional doors?
(a) Sliding doors.
(b) Bamboo curtins.
(c) Bead curtins.
(d) Open doorways.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what is Paloma's cousin born?

2. What conflict does Paloma witness?

3. What surprises Manuela when she and Renee are talking about Renee's upcoming dinner date?

4. What does Jacinthe Rosen do for Renee?

5. What does Renee think about as far as at in chapter 11?

(see the answer keys)

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