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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one result for Renee of Arthens' pending death?
(a) It causes her to reflect on the meaning of life.
(b) She is not as busy.
(c) She is much busier.
(d) People are kinder to her.

2. What does Renee remember about Arthens' son?
(a) He was very intelligent.
(b) He was kind.
(c) He was spoiled.
(d) He was cruel.

3. What was Arthens' son's problem?
(a) Club foot.
(b) Very bad eyesight.
(c) Drugs.
(d) Facial tic.

4. What is the young man's reaction to Renee's suggestion?
(a) Incredulity.
(b) Enthusiasm.
(c) Disdain.
(d) Condescension.

5. Why does Paloma begin to drink something different in the morning?
(a) In the hopes her mother will notice her.
(b) She thinks it more sophisticated than what her father drinks.
(c) To be rebellious.
(d) To build up her brain cells.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Paloma feel about her true person?

2. What does Renee Michel do for a living?

3. How does Madame Badoise injure her ankle?

4. What does Renee feel art does?

5. How does Renee characterize that dog?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Paloma hear at a dinner party and what does it make her think?

2. When and why does Renee's formal education end?

3. What way did Paloma consider suicide and what why does she finally settle upon in her mind?

4. Where does Renee work; how long has she worked there, and what are her clients like?

5. What does Paloma think is important to her mother and what does she say about her mother?

6. About whom do Renee and Manuela gossip when they are having tea?

7. How does Madame de Broglie injure her ankle?

8. What has Renee decided about phenomenology and how does she use Kant to come to this conclusion?

9. What was Renee's marriage like?

10. Describe Olympe.

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