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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. How does Michel feel about spitting out the wine?
(a) It would be appropriate.
(b) It would be odd.
(c) It would be fine.
(d) It would not be appropriate.

2. Peter's friend, Frank, calls him from London. He seems worried and on edge. Why?
(a) He was laid-off.
(b) He worries about Peter.
(c) He fears that he has missed truffle season.
(d) He is lost.

3. What is used to make the product more expensive?
(a) Strong scents.
(b) Gold.
(c) Heavy buckshot and mud.
(d) Weights.

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

5. When does Peter wake?
(a) The next morning.
(b) Late that evening.
(c) When it is almost dinner time.
(d) Only a few minutes after falling asleep.

Short Answer Questions

1. Mayle ____________ receiving fan mail from his readers.

2. What world is a murky one?

3. Doing more detective work, she soon learns that the dog is staying at a man's house where?

4. What does their one friend suggest they plan on doing?

5. Peter decides to travel to this town to learn if there is any validity to the man's claim about singing toads. His inquiries there lead him to a man named Monsieur ____________.

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Peter say about this tasting experience? Why does he give these details?

2. What takes place prior to Boy and the Gregoires' dog breeding? Why does the breeding not go as planned?

3. Describe Peter's birthday card. Why might he have been given this?

4. How is the toad story explained? Is it as odd and sensational as Peter had hoped? Why or why not?

5. How is Peter Mayle confused by the American visitor? How does this lead to a jab at Americans?

6. Why does Mayle's wife bring the dog home? Should she have done this? Why or why not?

7. How does Mayle feel about fan mail at first? Why does he feel this way?

8. How does the book begin? What does this lead him to say about the French?

9. Why is Peter's friend, Frank, worried and on edge? Should he feel this way?

10. Describe the truffle business.

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