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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. At what age is Renee forced to leave school?
(a) 21.
(b) 12.
(c) 17.
(d) 10.

2. What is one way Renee plays to her clients' prejudice?
(a) Drooling when she eats.
(b) Leaving the television on all day.
(c) Making inane conversation.
(d) Acting as if they are the smartest people Renee has ever met.

3. How does Renee characterize that dog?
(a) Ugly but necessary.
(b) Beautiful but helpless.
(c) Friendly but bites.
(d) Ugly and useless.

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

5. To what does Paloma want to set fire?
(a) Herself.
(b) The family's Rolls.
(c) Her family's apartment.
(d) The family's records.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Renee's husband like?

2. Why does Manuela come early for tea?

3. For whom does Manuela work?

4. What is Renee Michel's challenge?

5. What was Arthens' son's problem?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What does Paloma notice about one of the rugby players?

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

8. What was Renee's marriage like?

9. Describe Olympe.

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

(see the answer keys)

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