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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 26-27.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Gabe live with his mother when he was a child, according to the narrator in Chapter 7?
(a) Los Angeles, California
(b) San Francisco, California
(c) Brooklyn, New York
(d) Sacramento, California

2. Of Viviane, the narrator says in the beginning of Chapter 22, “She thought it unfair that her life should be both irrelevant and” what?
(a) Solitary
(b) Sorrowful
(c) Difficult
(d) Privileged

3. How does Emilienne’s husband die in the novel?
(a) He is shot in the back
(b) He is hanged
(c) He falls from a cliff
(d) He has a heart attack

4. In the beginning of Chapter 11, Ava says, "Henry was freed from our mother's protective rule on the hill just a few months after we turned” how old?
(a) 13
(b) 17
(c) 15
(d) 16

5. In the novel’s Prologue, the narrator states, “to many, I was myth incarnate, the embodiment of a most superb legend, a fairy tale. Some considered me a monster, a mutation. To my great misfortune, I was once mistaken for” what?
(a) A woman
(b) A goddess
(c) A bird
(d) An angel

Short Answer Questions

1. Who says in Emilienne’s dream in the beginning of Chapter 26, “We’ve been waiting for you. None of us can remember how to play bezique”?

2. How much does the Widow Marigold Pie weigh before she begins patronizing Emilienne’s bakery in Chapter 12?

3. What color does Cardigan dye Ava’s hair in Chapter 19?

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

5. What does Ava say Marigold Pie willed to her when she died, in Chapter 26?

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