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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Félicité hear Liebard talk about from her past?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her sister.
(c) The farmer she worked for as a girl.
(d) Madame Lehoussais.

2. What cure does the doctor recommend for Virginie's nervous complaint?
(a) Bleeding.
(b) Water and gruel.
(c) Laudanum.
(d) Sea bathing.

3. What is Félicité's relationship to Mme. Aubain?
(a) Daughter.
(b) Housemaid.
(c) Gardener.
(d) Mother.

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

5. How long have Félicité and Mme. Aubain been in this relationship?
(a) Half a century.
(b) Ten years.
(c) It is entirely new.
(d) Since Félicité was born.

Short Answer Questions

1. What state is the furniture in the parlor in?

2. What is Félicité's first job as a girl?

3. What is peculiar about Félicité's dress?

4. How is the Liebards' place in Troqueville described?

5. How long does Félicité's family stay on their first visit?

Short Essay Questions

1. To what extent would you say that this story is about Félicité? What do you think Flaubert wanted to say by writing a short story about a person like Félicité?

2. How does Félicité understand the Holy Spirit?

3. Why do you think Mme. Aubain shakes slightly when she sees Félicité respond to the news of her nephew's death?

4. What does the narrator say about Félicité's age and appearance and why might this be an important detail?

5. Why do you think it has such a big impact on Félicité when Mme. Aubain embraces her?

6. Why do you think that it struck Félicité as wrong that Mme. Aubain should die before she did?

7. How do Mme. Aubain and Félicité's reactions to Virginie's departure differ from each other?

8. How does Mme. Aubain respond to Félicité's reunion with her lost sister?

9. Why do you think the narrator conceals the real cause of Loulou's death?

10. Does it seem important that Félicité asks Fabu's forgiveness before she dies?

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