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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Chabaud gives Myriam an orange, what does she think of?
(a) Her family.
(b) Her religion.
(c) Her education.
(d) Her marriage.

2. What is the name of the house Myriam and Vicente rent?
(a) Dead Lady's Shack.
(b) The Haunted House.
(c) Last House Left.
(d) Hanged Man's House.

3. Where did Claire admit to passing out?
(a) Her daughter's school.
(b) The Holocaust Museum.
(c) Auschwitz.
(d) The post office.

4. According to Gabriele, what is the best way to die?
(a) Drowning.
(b) Falling.
(c) Choking.
(d) Freezing.

5. Who did Lélia live with when Myriam worked with the air force?
(a) Jeanine.
(b) Vicente.
(c) Chabaud.
(d) Yves.

6. Who did Vicente name himself after?
(a) His brother.
(b) His uncle.
(c) His father.
(d) His favorite actor.

7. Who registered Lélia's birth?
(a) Vicente.
(b) Yves.
(c) Myriam.
(d) Jeanine.

8. What did Chabaud tell Myriam to make a bed out of?
(a) Spanish broom.
(b) Old blankets.
(c) Baking ingredients.
(d) Hay.

9. Who wrote that "Myriam thought the war was hers, and hers alone" (446)?
(a) Anne.
(b) Claire.
(c) Yves.
(d) Lélia.

10. Who suggests that Anne name her children after her great-aunt and great-uncle?
(a) Lélia.
(b) Claire.
(c) Clara.
(d) Georges.

11. What scares Vicente about Paris?
(a) Seeing his family.
(b) The potential for war to start again.
(c) Drug use.
(d) Crowds.

12. Who was Myriam's second husband?
(a) Marcel.
(b) Jean.
(c) Vicente.
(d) Yves.

13. Who tells Myriam her parents were sent to Germany?
(a) The mayor.
(b) Yves.
(c) Gabriele.
(d) A neighbor.

14. Who does Myriam deliver a black substance to?
(a) Yves.
(b) Vicente.
(c) The trapeze artist.
(d) Jean.

15. How does Mireille Sidoine describe Myriam?
(a) Reserved.
(b) Flirtatious.
(c) Grieving.
(d) Wise.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Hebrew name was given to Claire?

2. What did Jean Sidoine leave for Myriam to use late each night?

3. What was the occupation of Vicente's cellmate's wife?

4. Initially, how does Yves make Myriam feel?

5. When was the first journal entry in the notebooks?

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