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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Boy.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Over the next several weeks, Mayle's wife stalks the dog, who she learns spends time ______________ where it can feed off scraps.
(a) At a park.
(b) Outside her house.
(c) Outside a cafe.
(d) In a school yard.

2. Mayle asserts that _________________ is the most common ailment that the French encounter.
(a) Influenza.
(b) Hypochondria.
(c) Nausea.
(d) Mono.

3. A local couple, the ______________, are invited over to see the dog.
(a) The Chignons.
(b) Gregoires.
(c) The Francoises.
(d) The DeVanes.

4. After being sent to one bureaucracy after the other, the final stop was a health check. The doctor found Mayle to be healthy but took his blood for one last screening which was to make sure he didn't have what?
(a) Cholera.
(b) Swine flu.
(c) Syphilis.
(d) AIDS.

5. Mayle recalls the prolonged process he endured in order to receive what?
(a) A pay check.
(b) A driver's license.
(c) Health insurance.
(d) The identification cards he was required to have as a foreign resident living in France.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mayle regret about his book signing?

2. Mayle meets up with a neighbor named Massot who shares his distrust of what?

3. As soon as the young man, Benson, steps off the train, he claims to be deathly ill with what?

4. The large shaggy animal is a stray and appears to be a French breed officially known as ______________.

5. British writer Peter Mayle is living in the Provence region of ____________.

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