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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 does Renee reply to Arthens' son's question?
(a) Camellias.
(b) She has no idea and maybe he should stop using it.
(c) She does not have the education to qualify for a different job.
(d) Job.

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

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

4. Why is the movie most significant to Renee?
(a) It was the last one she saw with her husband.
(b) She read the book and had predicted it would become a successful movie.
(c) Her cousin has a bit part in it.
(d) It was the last one she saw with her mother before she died.

5. Who does Manuela see on the steps?
(a) A stray cat.
(b) A stray dog.
(c) Paloma crying.
(d) Arthens daughter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Paloma believe about life?

2. What breed is Athena?

3. How does Renee feel about her marriage?

4. What does Paloma feel about her true person?

5. How is Paloma's mother is towards everything else besides the one important thing?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Chabrot come to Renee's apartment?

2. Describe Renee Michel.

3. What is Renee's educational background and who fostered her desire to learn?

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

5. Describe Olympe.

6. What image does Renee have of concierges, and why was it easier for her to keep up her charade of the unintelligent concierge when her husband was alive?

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

8. What was Renee's marriage like?

9. What filmmaker has Renee recently been introduced to and which film does she like of his and why?

10. What does Paloma Josse believe her future will be like and how does she plan to avoid that future?

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