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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 Paloma realize about words?
(a) Words are useless.
(b) The same word has a different meaning to different people.
(c) It is words that have power, not deeds.
(d) Words are overvalued, but useful to an extent.

2. Why of Paloma punished?
(a) For refusing to do her homework.
(b) For correcting her father in front of company.
(c) For being rude to her mother.
(d) For slapping her sister.

3. Who watched Neptune and Athena attempt this?
(a) Paloma.
(b) No one.
(c) Renee.
(d) Manuela.

4. Who is Neptune?
(a) Madame de Broglie's dog.
(b) Madame de Broglie's cat.
(c) A cat that lives in the alleyway near Renee's work.
(d) Manuela's Macaw.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. At what age is Renee forced to leave school?

2. How does Renee characterize that dog?

3. What was Arthens' son's problem?

4. What follows on the heels of the statement that Paloma thinks is totally wrong?

5. What astounds Renee by a note she receives about some dry cleaning?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the Renee's clients believe about concierges and how does Renee try to project their image of the average concierge?

2. What does Paloma think of Maître Arthens?

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

4. What note does Renee receive and what astounds her about the note?

5. Describe Olympe.

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

7. What was Renee's marriage like?

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

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

10. What does Paloma believe about life and why?

(see the answer keys)

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