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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 did somebody leave on Anne and Lélia's vehicle outside town hall?
(a) A picture of Emma's piano.
(b) An envelope full of postcards.
(c) A picture of Myriam.
(d) A document with family history typed on it.

2. What was the DDT powder meant to do?
(a) Prevent infection.
(b) Prevent starvation.
(c) Eliminate poisons.
(d) Kill lice.

3. What helps Myriam feel protected?
(a) Jeanine.
(b) Her pregnancy.
(c) Her family.
(d) Her studies.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In whose memoirs does Anne read about Myriam, Yves, and Vicente?

2. How long does it take to cross the Pyrenees into Spain?

3. How did Vicente die?

4. Who wrote that "Myriam thought the war was hers, and hers alone" (446)?

5. Who is Yves Bouveris related to?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is significant about how Vicente died?

2. What was strange about Vicente registering Lélia's birth?

3. What was Lélia's relationship like with Myriam in adulthood?

4. Who typically frequented the youth hostel where Myriam stayed?

5. Why did Myriam move to the Hanged Man's House?

6. What kind of names do Anne and Georges agree on for their child?

7. How does Myriam feel about Yves when he moves in?

8. In Chapter 25, what does Lélia tell Anne about her first months of life?

9. Why did Myriam learn to celebrate Christmas?

10. Why did Myriam go to Dijon?

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