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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Félicité's response to Virginie receiving her first communion?
(a) She claps her hands.
(b) She feels angry.
(c) She nearly faints.
(d) She regrets never having received communion herself.

2. What does Félicité do after she receives her letter?
(a) Walks to the market.
(b) Cleans her room.
(c) Responds to the letter.
(d) The laundry.

3. How does Mme. Aubain deal with her grief when Virginie goes away to school?
(a) Through socializing and writing letters.
(b) She cries for days.
(c) She locks herself in her room for a week.
(d) She takes long solitary walks.

4. Who moves to Pont-l'Eveque shortly Virginie dies?
(a) Theodore.
(b) The Baron de Larsonniere.
(c) Victor.
(d) Félicité's family.

5. Why doesn't Félicité have any repairs done to the house?
(a) She doesn't notice.
(b) She doesn't know who to ask.
(c) She is afraid she'll be evicted.
(d) She is too poor.

6. What task does Félicité perform for Paul?
(a) She writes at his dictation.
(b) She mends his clothes.
(c) She packs him a basket of food to take home.
(d) She knits him socks.

7. Why does Félicité think that the Holy Spirit was more likely to have been a parrot than a dove?
(a) Because parrots are more colorful.
(b) She has a vision.
(c) She sees it in a dream.
(d) Because parrots can talk.

8. What emotion does Félicité feel when she remembers Loulou's life?
(a) Resentment.
(b) Sadness.
(c) Tranquility.
(d) Longing.

9. Where does Paul spend much of his time?
(a) In the tavern.
(b) In the library.
(c) At school.
(d) At home.

10. What does Félicité do after Virginie goes to school?
(a) She carries one of Virginie's handkerchiefs.
(b) She goes into Virginie's room and looks at the walls.
(c) She starts a vegetable garden.
(d) She devotes herself to cooking elaborate meals.

11. What does Paul's wife do with Mme. Aubain's home and belongings?
(a) She gives everything to Félicité.
(b) She takes all the furniture.
(c) She sells everything without visiting.
(d) She takes a few items and sells the rest.

12. What does Félicité consider doing shortly after she gets Loulou back?
(a) Retire from Mme. Aubain's service.
(b) Join a sisterhood.
(c) Get married.
(d) Move back to her hometown.

13. What color is Virginie's grave stone?
(a) Yellow.
(b) Black.
(c) Pink.
(d) White.

14. What part of the catechism class does Félicité find beautiful and interesting?
(a) The summary of the Holy Scriptures.
(b) Church dogma.
(c) Memorizing the prayers.
(d) The songs.

15. What does Félicité take as a keepsake from among Virginie's things?
(a) A doll.
(b) A hat.
(c) Shoes.
(d) A dress.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who commits suicide?

2. How does Fabu feel after Félicité speaks to him?

3. What do Paul's parents tell him to do when he visits Félicité?

4. Who tells Félicité that the house is for sale?

5. Why does Félicité think that her illness makes sense?

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