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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. When Ava attempts to find an exit to Marigold Pie’s home, she enters a room filled with what dead animals in Chapter 23?
(a) Dogs
(b) Cats
(c) Bats
(d) Birds

2. Whom does Viviane encounter in the hospital waiting room when she steps out for some air in Chapter 24?
(a) Jack
(b) Cardigan
(c) Gabe
(d) Rowe

3. What does Nathaniel do to Ava after raping her in Chapter 23?
(a) He beheads her
(b) He hangs her
(c) He shoots her
(d) He hacks off her wings

4. 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) Foxglove
(b) Ghost orchids
(c) Pennyroyal
(d) California poppies

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose ghost relates “the terrible truth” to Emilienne in Chapter 23?

2. What does Ava say Marigold Pie did after awakening from her drugged state in Chapter 26?

3. What “mule-headed” Shakespearean character is described in Chapter 19 as “stumbling from tents of sheer turquoise and white”?

4. Who is Ava Lavender’s father in The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What scene does Ava describe Jack Griffith seeing from his balcony in Chapter 27?

2. How is Ava introduced to the teenagers at the reservoir in Chapter 15? Who introduces Ava?

3. What incident occurs between Ava and Nathaniel Sorrows in Chapter 17?

4. How does Ava describe the after-story of Marigold Pie in Chapter 26? Where did Marigold Pie go?

5. How is Emilienne’s behavior described in the beginning of Chapter 21? What has influenced her change in behavior?

6. What project do Gabe and Henry begin working on together in Chapter 14?

7. How is Ava greeted when she is led into the home of Marigold Pie in Chapter 23?

8. What does Ava discover when she attempts to flee the home of Marigold Pie in Chapter 23?

9. How do Ava and Cardigan go about preparing for the Summer Solstice festival in Chapter 19?

10. What is the first “clue” that Emilienne deciphers when she arrives at the home of Marigold Pie in Chapter 24?

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