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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Cardigan’s response when Ava asks her in the opening of Chapter 16, “What’s his name?”
(a) William Peyton
(b) Barnaby Callahoo
(c) Nathaniel Sorrows
(d) Jeremiah Flannery

2. What color does Cardigan dye Ava’s hair in Chapter 19?
(a) Black
(b) Red
(c) Pink
(d) Blond

3. What term from Chapter 19 refers to the dancing spirits of rain and fertility in the mythology of the Hopis?
(a) Wawi
(b) Atica
(c) Huevos
(d) Kachinas

4. Who insists that Emilienne take a ride home with Rowe while she helps to prepare to open the bakery in the morning in Chapter 21?
(a) Iris Sorrows
(b) Beatrix
(c) Penelope
(d) Margaux

5. The narrator says in Chapter 19 that in “ancient Gaul the midsummer celebration was called” what?
(a) Kachinas
(b) All Couples’ Day
(c) Gathering Day
(d) The Feast of Epona

6. What is the date of the diary entry that concludes Chapter 18?
(a) June 21, 1959
(b) September 12, 1955
(c) May 11, 1959
(d) May 15, 1959

7. Who is the first person to discover Ava’s injured body in Chapter 24?
(a) Marigold Pie
(b) Viviane
(c) Emilienne
(d) Henry

8. Who have kept the bakery going during Ava’s recovery in Chapter 25?
(a) Wilhelmina and Penelope
(b) Beatrix and Penelope
(c) Viviane and Emilienne
(d) Fatima and Margaux

9. What is the midsummer festival called in Greece, according to the narrator in Chapter 19?
(a) Gathering Day
(b) Kachinas
(c) All Couples’ Day
(d) The Feast of Epona

10. How does Cardigan reach Ava’s window in Chapter 15?
(a) By climbing the roof
(b) By pole-vaulting
(c) By using a ladder
(d) By climbing a cherry tree

11. What does Cardigan wear as a costume to attend the Solstice Festival in Chapter 19?
(a) Angel wings
(b) Cat ears
(c) A sombrero
(d) A feathered mask

12. Whose apparition appears and leads Ava out of her house when she’s ill with fever in Chapter 17?
(a) Margaux’s
(b) Beatrix’s
(c) Fatima’s
(d) Rene’s

13. Whose apparitions attack and ultimately destroy Nathaniel Sorrows in Chapter 24?
(a) Margaux’s and Pierette’s
(b) Rene’s and Penelope’s
(c) Iris’s and Gabe’s
(d) Fatima’s and Margaux’s

14. When Viviane suffers from particularly bad bouts of insomnia, she drinks tea made from the crushed leaves of what flowers, according to the narrator in Chapter 16?
(a) Ghost orchids
(b) Foxglove
(c) California poppies
(d) Pennyroyal

15. Whom has Ava developed an attraction to in the beginning of Chapter 17?
(a) Nathaniel Sorrows
(b) John Griffith
(c) Jeremiah Flannery
(d) William Peyton

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Viviane see in the backyard where Jack had been searching for King Tut’s tomb when Viviane met him, in Chapter 22?

2. What impairment does Rowe Cooper suffer from in the novel?

3. Whom does Nathaniel say “seems frantic to find you,” when he encounters Ava in Chapter 20?

4. In the diary entry that concludes Chapter 18, Nathaniel describes not having left his aunt’s house in how many days?

5. When Jack solicits Viviane for them to try again, she cannot keep whose image from creeping into her mind in Chapter 22?

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