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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. How is Isabelle's clothing described when she begins her clerical job for the Germans?
(a) Red and frilly.
(b) Pink and flowy.
(c) Plain and brown.
(d) Yellow and frilly.

2. Who is the German who will come live with Vianne after Beck's disappearance?
(a) Julien.
(b) Rossignol.
(c) Von Richter.
(d) Gervaise.

3. Who do Vianne and Sophie take half of their rations to in Chapter 22?
(a) Didier and Gaetan.
(b) Rachel and Sarah.
(c) Julien and Paul.
(d) Von Richter.

4. What happens to Daniel in Chapter 37?
(a) He dies from tuberculosis.
(b) He is killed by Nazi soldiers.
(c) He is taken to his family in America.
(d) He is taken to the concentration camps.

5. Who hits Beck over the head with a shovel in Chapter 25?
(a) Sarah.
(b) Sophie.
(c) Rachel.
(d) Vianne.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year is Chapter 31 set?

2. Whom does Vianne go to for papers for the Jewish orphan in Chapter 30?

3. Who in Isabelle's apartment building is taken by the Germans but told that her children can stay in Chapter 21?

4. Who stitches shut Isabelle's gunshot wound in Chapter 25?

5. How many airmen has Isabelle now brought across the Pyrenees in Chapter 21?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the theme of womanhood developed in Chapter 32?

2. How is the theme of love further developed in Chapter 32?

3. What causes the changes in Vianne's character in Chapter 22?

4. How are the characters of Vianne and Isabelle compared in Chapter 29?

5. What is revealed through the conversation between Vianne and Gaetan in Chapter 25?

6. What symbolism is revealed through Isabelle's dream in Chapter 27?

7. What is symbolized by the cloths tied to the apple tree in the narrative?

8. How is the theme of war developed in Chapter 29?

9. How is the theme of love developed in Chapter 25?

10. How is Gaetan's return described in Chapter 38?

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