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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who tells the narrator of Fabienne's death?
(a) Fabienne's mother.
(b) Fabienne's father.
(c) Her best friend.
(d) The narrator's mother.

2. What does the photographer tell Agnes would not be interesting?
(a) Photographing her in front of the river.
(b) Photographing her in front of the Eiffel Tower.
(c) Photographing her in front of the house.
(d) Eating ice cream.

3. What does Fabienne say a book should bear?
(a) Two names.
(b) Just one name.
(c) Four names.
(d) Three names.

4. What does Fabienne think she needs to do for Agnes?
(a) Explain everything to her.
(b) Coddle her.
(c) Feed her.
(d) Tell her the answers to tests.

5. What are Americans quick to label people as?
(a) Friendly.
(b) Passive.
(c) Suspicious.
(d) Angry.

6. Who used to cut Agnes's hair?
(a) Her brother.
(b) Her sisters.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Her father.

7. What is the most inexplicable think about childhood, according to Agnes?
(a) Eating.
(b) Hatred.
(c) Singing.
(d) Friendship.

8. Who requests that Agnes go to Paris alone in September?
(a) M. Picard.
(b) M. Richard.
(c) M. Miro.
(d) M. Chastain.

9. Where does the narrator live as an adult?
(a) Pennsylvania.
(b) Canada.
(c) Spain.
(d) Germany.

10. What problem do the narrator and her husband have?
(a) Reading problems.
(b) Heart problems.
(c) Infertility.
(d) Financial problems.

11. What does Agnes have for the first time in Paris?
(a) A cigarette.
(b) Caramels.
(c) Ice cream.
(d) Meat.

12. What can you not cut an apple with?
(a) A machete.
(b) A knife.
(c) A saw.
(d) An apple.

13. What does Fabienne often call the narrator?
(a) A fiend.
(b) An angel.
(c) A genius.
(d) An idiot.

14. Who are the narrator's sisters?
(a) Rosemary and Jane.
(b) Madeline and Rosemary.
(c) Marcella and Rosemary.
(d) Jane. and Marcella.

15. Who takes Fabienne's picture in her village in Part II?
(a) M. Richarde.
(b) M. Miro.
(c) M. Bazin.
(d) M. Picard.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Fabienne want the narrator to do the physical writing of the books?

2. What animals does the narrator raise as an adult?

3. Who is the narrator's brother?

4. What does Agnes worry Fabienne might do to M. Devaux?

5. How does Fabienne die?

(see the answer keys)

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