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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are some of Félicité's chores?
(a) Nurse the children and tidy the nursery.
(b) Various carpentry jobs around the house.
(c) Bridle a horse, the washing, feeding the chickens.
(d) Milk the cow, scythe the yard, and drive the carriage.

2. How is Mme. Aubain's husband described?
(a) Kind but careless with money.
(b) Cruel and extravagant.
(c) A rake and a spendthrift.
(d) Handsome but impecunious.

3. What smell pervades the living room?
(a) Roses.
(b) Fumes from the kitchen.
(c) Must.
(d) Horses.

4. Why does Mme. Aubain have to sell the majority of her properties?
(a) She needed money for her daughter's wedding.
(b) She wanted the money to travel.
(c) Her son lost them gambling.
(d) Because her husband ran into debt.

5. What was Mme. Aubain's annual income?
(a) One hundred thousand francs.
(b) Fifty thousand francs.
(c) Five thousand francs.
(d) Nine hundred francs.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long have Félicité and Mme. Aubain been in this relationship?

2. How are the easy chairs in the living room upholstered?

3. How is Félicité's voice described?

4. What is described as the despair of the other housemaids?

5. What is piled on the piano?

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