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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. What happens to Colette and Valentine in "One Evening"?
(a) Their horse dies.
(b) Their dogs run away.
(c) Their waiter drop soups on them.
(d) Their car breaks down.

2. Why does the man in "A Dead End" feel relief?
(a) The woman he loves leaves him.
(b) The woman he loves has an affair.
(c) The woman he loves marries him.
(d) The woman he loves dies.

3. What changes the image suddenly and makes it unflattering in "The Portrait"?
(a) The rain.
(b) Age.
(c) The sea air.
(d) The fire fumes.

4. Who sends money to Marco in "The Kepi"?
(a) Her estate.
(b) Her parents.
(c) Her brothers.
(d) Her ex-husband.

5. How old is the girl that the man in "The Tender Shoot' becomes enamored with?
(a) 25.
(b) 16.
(c) 18.
(d) 15.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the girl and her mother throw at the man in "The Tender Shoot"?

2. Where does Madame Arnaud feel pain in "The Photographer's Wife"?

3. Where does the man in "The Hidden Woman" want his wife to go to?

4. What does the bracelet in "The Bracelet" remind the woman of?

5. What does the victim of the man in 'The Burglar" think the man is in the house for?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Colette become irked in "Bella-Vista"?

2. What does the hollow nut Colette describes in "The Hollow Nut" symbolize?

3. Who is Delia in 'The Rainy Moon" and what is she mourning?

4. "What happens in the country during "The Watchmen"?

5. What does Colette remember in "Bygone Spring"?

6. What does the man in "The Respite" have a respite from?

7. What does Marco's ex-husband send and what does Marco do with the money?

8. What does Colette discuss in "Green Sealing Wax"?

9. What does the boy in "Sick Child" go back and forth between?

10. How is the relationship between two men ruined in "The Fox"?

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