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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 20-22.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Gabe’s mother support herself and her son, according to the narrator in Chapter 7?
(a) She was a librarian
(b) She prostituted herself
(c) She worked in a café
(d) She sold flowers in a shop

2. The narrator describes Viviane in Chapter 4 as instigating a neighborhood rivalry with the kids from what area?
(a) Brooklyn
(b) Phinney Ridge
(c) The Bronx
(d) Oak Park

3. When Viviane first meets Jack Griffith, he is digging a hole in his yard that he believes will lead him to what?
(a) The Arctic Ocean
(b) China
(c) The Hoover Dam
(d) The remains of King Tut

4. Viviane Lavender is described in the novel as having an acute sense of what?
(a) Sight
(b) Touch
(c) Smell
(d) Hearing

5. How does the narrator describe John Griffith’s feelings for Emilienne Lavender in the beginning of Chapter 5?
(a) He regards her as a sister
(b) He loves her like a father
(c) He lusts for her
(d) He wishes to be her

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Jack Griffith’s maid in Chapter 22?

2. Whose truck does Ava see pulling away from her driveway as she nears her house in Chapter 20?

3. What does Ava say “etoile de mer” translates to from French in Chapter 11?

4. How old is Ava Lavender when John Griffith undergoes a transformation and visits the bakery in his tattered bathrobe to speak to Emilienne in Chapter 10?

5. Of Viviane, the narrator says in the beginning of Chapter 22, “She thought it unfair that her life should be both irrelevant and” what?

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