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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 26-27.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year do Ava and Henry turn fifteen in Chapter 12?
(a) 1959
(b) 1961
(c) 1955
(d) 1979

2. Whose address does Emilienne give to the police when she calls in Chapter 23?
(a) John Griffith’s
(b) Constance Quakenbush’s
(c) Laura Lovelorn’s
(d) Marigold Pie’s

3. Who is described as “fluffing her bright-yellow hair” in Emilienne’s dream in the beginning of Chapter 26?
(a) Margaux
(b) Viviane
(c) Pierette
(d) Wilhelmina

4. According to the narrator in Chapter 26, “No one had occupied the third floor of our house since the days of” whom?
(a) Wilhelmina
(b) William Peyton
(c) Fatima Ines
(d) Beatrix Griffith

5. Who says in Emilienne’s dream in the beginning of Chapter 26, “We’ve been waiting for you. None of us can remember how to play bezique”?
(a) Margaux
(b) Wilhelmina
(c) Viviane
(d) Pierette

Short Answer Questions

1. What flower is said to be “the symbol for unrequited love” in Chapter 16?

2. How did Gabe’s mother support herself and her son, according to the narrator in Chapter 7?

3. The narrator describes Gabe’s mother as having told him she was of what descent in Chapter 7?

4. Who is the strange man sitting on Ava’s bed when she awakens in the night at the end of Chapter 25?

5. How many times does the narrator say Emilienne Roux fell in love before her nineteenth birthday in Chapter 1?

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