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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 abnormality does Ava describe herself as having been born with in the narrative?
(a) White hair
(b) Wings
(c) Talons
(d) Odd-colored eyes

2. Who asks Viviane what she’s going to do now that Jack is marrying someone else in Chapter 8?
(a) Sarah Callahoo
(b) Constance Quakenbush
(c) Laura Lovelorn
(d) Beatrix Griffith

3. From what narrative perspective is The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender related?
(a) Second-person
(b) Third-person
(c) First-person
(d) Fourth-person

4. How many times does the narrator say Emilienne Roux fell in love before her nineteenth birthday in Chapter 1?
(a) 2
(b) 3
(c) 4
(d) 1

5. What does Viviane do when Jack visits her at work to say “I’ll never forget you,” in Chapter 8?
(a) She shoots him
(b) She vomits
(c) She quits her job
(d) She slaps him

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the ship that Emilienne’s family boards for the United States in Chapter 1?

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

3. Who shoots and kills Rene Roux in Chapter 1?

4. In the opening of Chapter 12, the narrator says, “Those born under Pacific Northwest skies are like” what?

5. Who is described in Chapter 13 as Cardigan’s “latest acquisition”?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who brings gifts to Ava and Henry when they are two? What happens to this character?

2. When does Ava say Henry was “freed from our mother’s protective rule on the hill” in Chapter 11? Why?

3. When does Chapter 9 begin? How is Viviane’s condition described in the beginning of the chapter?

4. How is the character of John Griffith described in Chapter 5? How does John Griffith feel about Emilienne?

5. What does Wilhelmina do the first two times she comes to Emilienne’s bakery in Chapter 3?

6. How does Ava describe Marigold Pie prior to her sweets addiction in Chapter 12?

7. How does Ava describe Emilienne as a mother in Chapter 4? How is her relationship with Viviane described?

8. Where are Jack and Viviane in the beginning of Chapter 6? How old are they in the beginning of the chapter?

9. What happened to Emilienne Roux’s father in 1915, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?

10. How does Ava describe her birth in the novel’s Prologue? When and where was Ava born?

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