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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 17-19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of animal does Pierette transform herself into at the age of fifteen?
(a) A cat
(b) A canary
(c) A dog
(d) A chicken

2. Who encounters Ava out on the street as she wanders in a feverish fit and leads her home in Chapter 17?
(a) Emilienne
(b) Henry
(c) Cardigan
(d) Gabe

3. In what year do Ava and Henry turn fifteen in Chapter 12?
(a) 1979
(b) 1961
(c) 1955
(d) 1959

4. What is Mrs. Cooper’s first name in the novel?
(a) Fatima
(b) Beatrix
(c) Penelope
(d) Wilhelmina

5. What is the name of the Coopers’ daughter and Ava’s best friend in childhood?
(a) Cardigan
(b) Margaux
(c) Viviane
(d) Pierette

Short Answer Questions

1. When Viviane suffers from particularly bad bouts of insomnia, she drinks tea made from the crushed leaves of what flowers, according to the narrator in Chapter 16?

2. What “mule-headed” Shakespearean character is described in Chapter 19 as “stumbling from tents of sheer turquoise and white”?

3. What month is it as Viviane awaits childbirth in the beginning of Chapter 9?

4. What is the name of the man that Emilienne marries and moves to Seattle with in Chapter 2?

5. What is the Latin word for “feather” that Henry uses to refer to Ava in the novel?

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