A Year in Provence Test | Final Test - Easy

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 121 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

A Year in Provence Test | Final Test - Easy

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 121 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the Mayles hope the sanitation men would do with the tip they gave them?
(a) buy Christmas presents for their families with it
(b) give it to the church on Christmas
(c) go out and have a glorious, messy meal and have someone else clear up
(d) donate it to a local charity

2. What is Henriette, Faustin's wife, handy at?
(a) sewing
(b) baking
(c) servicing their truck as a mechanic
(d) entertaining

3. Where is the heating system located?
(a) in the courtyard
(b) behind the house
(c) in what used to be the donkey dormitory
(d) beside the pool

4. What was the appearance of the hall where the investiture was to take place?
(a) a rustic building in the French Provencal style
(b) a Rococo building with fancy sculpted decorations inside and out
(c) a building that looked like a convent
(d) a box-like building of raw brick and aluminum-trimmed glass

5. What cafe do the Mayles eat at in November?
(a) the cafe in Cavaillon
(b) the cafe in Le Paradou
(c) the cafe in Bonnieux
(d) the cafe in Buoux

6. Who is the Mayles' guest who is disaster-prone?
(a) Bennett
(b) Lydia
(c) Pierre
(d) Tony

7. Who were the two uniformed men parked outside the Mayles' house?
(a) census takers
(b) local firemen
(c) policemen
(d) chimney sweeps

8. What had some friends of the Mayles seen in their hotel room which frightened them?
(a) a falcon
(b) a rat
(c) a bat
(d) a large spider

9. Who wanted to go through the crowd of spectators and goats and drivers?
(a) a farner taking his cattle to market
(b) a funeral procession
(c) several drunks who refused to get out of the way
(d) a woman in a car looking for the auto route.

10. What are the "Sayings of August?"
(a) folk sayings of the Provencal peasants
(b) Faustin's statements about the forest fire near Grasse
(c) Statements made by Menicucci and his men about the work they had to do.
(d) Statements made by mystified, tightfisted or apologetic visitors.

11. Who is Monsieur Aude?
(a) an iron artist
(b) a local chef
(c) a stone sculptor
(d) a local painter

12. What was the tourist joke Faustin told about the English?
(a) "What changes from the color of a dead rat to the color of a dead lobster in three hours?"
(b) "Who pays exorbitant prices without blinking an eyelash?"
(c) "Who is so prim and proper they are shocked by the dress of the Provencal peasants?"
(d) "Wjp throws up the French food with regularity?"

13. What is the man in the woods whom Peter meets wearing?
(a) a hunting outfit
(b) shorts and a polo shirt
(c) a hat with netting
(d) a rubber boot on one food and a running shoe on the other

14. What do the sanitation men mind that is left for them to clean up?
(a) degeuleuse
(b) serviettes hygieniques
(c) animaux morts
(d) mouldy food

15. Whom did Peter call when there was a problem with the house or property?
(a) Tony
(b) Menicucci
(c) Christian
(d) Faustin

Short Answer Questions

1. Who helps Peter stock his wine cellar?

2. Where had Peter's friend rented a house?

3. How many bakers are listed in the yellow pages in Cavaillon?

4. Who is rumored to have bought a house in Provence?

5. What was the hall officially called?

(see the answer keys)

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