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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Throughout the novel, Ava Lavender expresses her concerns and obsessions with what concept and its role in her life?
(a) Piety
(b) Terrorism
(c) Fate
(d) Revenge

2. In the novel’s Prologue, the narrator states, “to many, I was myth incarnate, the embodiment of a most superb legend, a fairy tale. Some considered me a monster, a mutation. To my great misfortune, I was once mistaken for” what?
(a) An angel
(b) A bird
(c) A woman
(d) A goddess

3. How old is Emilienne when her family immigrates to the United States?
(a) 10
(b) 6
(c) 12
(d) 8

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

5. What is the name of the man that Emilienne marries and moves to Seattle with in Chapter 2?
(a) John Griffith
(b) Beauregard Lavender
(c) Connor Lavender
(d) William Peyton

6. What is the occupation of Emilienne Roux’s father?
(a) He is a wheat farmer
(b) He is a bank accountant
(c) He is a phrenologist
(d) He is a baker

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

8. The narrator describes Gabe’s mother as having told him she was of what descent in Chapter 7?
(a) Romanian
(b) Portuguese
(c) French
(d) Italian

9. What year is it when Emilienne’s family immigrates to the United States?
(a) 1916
(b) 1912
(c) 1889
(d) 1951

10. Where did Gabe live with his mother when he was a child, according to the narrator in Chapter 7?
(a) San Francisco, California
(b) Brooklyn, New York
(c) Sacramento, California
(d) Los Angeles, California

11. The yearly celebrations for Fatima Ines de Dores’s birthday at Pinnacle Lane fall on what holiday?
(a) Summer Solstice
(b) Easter
(c) Winter Solstice
(d) Christmas

12. What is Jack and Emilienne’s favorite spot that they go to after the movies in Chapter 5?
(a) The school parking lot
(b) The Hideout Café
(c) The town reservoir
(d) Salmon Bay

13. What does Henry’s first word, “Trouver” mean in French?
(a) To love
(b) To fear
(c) To kill
(d) To find

14. What kind of animal does Pierette transform herself into at the age of fifteen?
(a) A chicken
(b) A canary
(c) A cat
(d) A dog

15. How does Emilienne’s husband die in the novel?
(a) He is hanged
(b) He has a heart attack
(c) He is shot in the back
(d) He falls from a cliff

Short Answer Questions

1. Jack suggests to Emilienne in the conclusion of Chapter 5 that perhaps his father would not hate him so much if what were the case?

2. How old is Jack Griffith when “more than two thousand soldiers launch the U.S. into World War II” in Chapter 5?

3. How much does the Widow Marigold Pie weigh before she begins patronizing Emilienne’s bakery in Chapter 12?

4. Viviane Lavender is described in the novel as having an acute sense of what?

5. On what date was Emilienne born, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?

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