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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. When Jake, Richard, Serge, and Fiona arrive in Vincennes, what method have they used to get there?
(a) Mopeds.
(b) Bicycles.
(c) The Metro.
(d) A tram.

2. What is the name of the cult to which Kurt and Claire had belonged?
(a) The Hosanna Collective.
(b) The Children of God.
(c) The Sunshine Sisters.
(d) The Sons of Jehovah.

3. For how long have Yale and Charlie been together before Charlie's diagnosis?
(a) 3 years.
(b) 5 years.
(c) 2 years.
(d) 1 year.

4. About what element of Yale's life is his father said to be proud?
(a) Yale's status as a museum curator.
(b) Yale's affiliation with the Art Institute.
(c) Yale's affiliation with the Briggs Gallery.
(d) Yale's status as a literary critic.

5. In what religion had Roman been brought up?
(a) Catholicism.
(b) Mormonism.
(c) Baptist.
(d) Scientology.

Short Answer Questions

1. What position does Fiona hold at the furniture store when Claire starts coming to help?

2. Fiona fixates on photographs of whom while she is in Paris?

3. What is the result of Yale's HIV test?

4. What piece of information does Claire refuse to provide to Fiona?

5. What is NOT an adjective used to depict the furniture store where Fiona works?

Short Essay Questions

1. What information does Fiona find out about her granddaughter Nicolette during her meeting with Claire?

2. Explain Fiona's acquisition of Nico's friends as her own friends.

3. What major news does Yale receive from Teresa, Charlie's mother?

4. What is ironic about Charlie's relationship with Julian?

5. How does Fiona describe the setting in which Nico had died?

6. In what way does the narrator describe Fiona's feelings during the birth of Claire?

7. What information does Fiona tell Jake about the friendship between Julian and Nico?

8. What "double good news" (231) does Arnaud reveal to Fiona at Richard's house in Paris?

9. What conclusion does Yale draw about the bad news he hears from Teresa?

10. What is Fiona's main concern about people finding out that she has slept with Jake?

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