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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What color is the wainscoting in the living room?
(a) Red.
(b) Green.
(c) White.
(d) Blue.

3. Where is Mme. Aubain's house located?
(a) Beside her old house.
(b) Behind the market.
(c) Next to a stable.
(d) In the country.

4. What is Félicité's first job as a girl?
(a) To look after cows.
(b) Nurse.
(c) A cook.
(d) To watch children.

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

6. What does Virginie wear to bathe?
(a) A nightgown.
(b) A bathing suit.
(c) Her chemise.
(d) Bloomers.

7. What kind of a wage does Félicité earn?
(a) Low.
(b) Fair.
(c) Moderate.
(d) Generous.

8. What is Félicité's defining act of heroism?
(a) She saves Virginie from drowning.
(b) She protects the family from burglers.
(c) She rescues the children from a band of gypsies.
(d) She protects Mme. Aubain and the children from a bull attack.

9. What does Virginie do while the family is on their outing?
(a) Sits quietly with her mother and Félicité.
(b) Feeds rabbits and gathers cornflowers.
(c) Sunbathes.
(d) Entertains Paul.

10. How long does Félicité's family stay on their first visit?
(a) 1 hour.
(b) 45 minutes.
(c) 15 minutes.
(d) 2 hours.

11. 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.

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

13. Why does the family move back home?
(a) Paul needed to prepare to leave for school.
(b) Virginie's cough resumed.
(c) Félicité had to return to tend to seasonal work.
(d) Mme. Aubain missed her house.

14. What state is the furniture in the parlor in?
(a) Clean.
(b) Covered in plastic.
(c) Dilapidated.
(d) Draped in sheets.

15. What is placed against the wainscoting in the living room?
(a) A couch.
(b) A stove.
(c) Chairs.
(d) A bed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What particularly bothered Mme. Aubain about the way that Félicité's family behaved?

2. What did Félicité's family do in order to be near Félicité?

3. How is Félicité's voice described?

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

5. What new activity do Félicité and Virginie begin at Christmas time?

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