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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 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.

2. What does Paloma decide to do for her next birthday?
(a) Tell her father she wants to go away to boarding school.
(b) Run away.
(c) Commit suicide.
(d) Move to Canada.

3. What has Renee decided is a fraud?
(a) Semantics.
(b) Phenomenology.
(c) Heuristics.
(d) Linguistics.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Renee Michel do for a living?

2. What does Paloma feel about her true person?

3. How does Renee see Manuela in Manuela's current station in life?

4. Why does Renee hide her intelligence from others?

5. Which of Tolstoy's books does Renee love in particular?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. What does Renee say when the son of a tenant in the building says something to Renee about Marx?

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

4. Who is Manuela and what does she want to do?

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

6. What is one of Renee's favorite movie and why?

7. What does Paloma believe about life and why?

8. Who stops to ask Renee something when she and Manuela are talking and what is Renee's feelings about it?

9. What does Renee remember about Arthens' son?

10. What does Paloma decide to do after observing an interesting rugby player?

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