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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7 & 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is the boy’s book covered, according to the narrator?
(a) Roughly.
(b) Carefully.
(c) Shoddily.
(d) Meticulously.

2. What is remarkable about Catherine’s sunbathing?
(a) She never changes color.
(b) She never complains about her sunburn.
(c) She remains quite fair.
(d) She never uses sunscreen.

3. Why is the girl’s mother in prison?
(a) She was accused of bewitching a dead boy.
(b) She was accused of stealing food.
(c) She was accused of adultery.
(d) She was accused of stealing a baby.

4. What has Emilie brought pieces of cloth to Ville Rose for?
(a) She is going to sew them into a purple blanket.
(b) She is going to bury them with her mother’s body.
(c) She is going to pay Lamort with them, for taking her to her mother’s body.
(d) She is going to make a funeral veil for her mother.

5. What is the dinner table made of, in Guy and Lili’s house?
(a) Laps—there is no table.
(b) Mahogany.
(c) Plywood and bricks.
(d) Shipping crates.

Short Answer Questions

1. What regime does Lamort say she supports?

2. Who tells the girl that her mother has died?

3. What does he get instead?

4. What story will the woman tell her son if he wakes up while she is with a customer?

5. What does Lamort tell Emilie when Emilie asks whether there were any women’s bodies found after the coup?

(see the answer key)

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