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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What flower is said to be “the symbol for unrequited love” in Chapter 16?
(a) The daisy
(b) The rose
(c) The daffodil
(d) The orchid

2. Whom does Viviane encounter in the hospital waiting room when she steps out for some air in Chapter 24?
(a) Cardigan
(b) Jack
(c) Rowe
(d) Gabe

3. What is the midsummer festival called in Greece, according to the narrator in Chapter 19?
(a) Kachinas
(b) Gathering Day
(c) All Couples’ Day
(d) The Feast of Epona

4. Who is Ava Lavender’s father in The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender?
(a) William Peyton
(b) Connor Lavender
(c) Jack Griffith
(d) Barnaby Callahoo

5. Who is hired to replace Emilienne at the bakery in Chapter 25?
(a) Viviane
(b) Cardigan
(c) Gabe
(d) Beatrix Griffith

6. Who is the strange man sitting on Ava’s bed when she awakens in the night at the end of Chapter 25?
(a) Jack
(b) Nathaniel Sorrows
(c) John Griffith
(d) Rene

7. What does Viviane begin doing after she has an epiphany about Jack while putting Henry and Trouver into the truck in Chapter 22?
(a) Laughing
(b) Screaming
(c) Sobbing
(d) Singing

8. What color does Cardigan dye Ava’s hair in Chapter 19?
(a) Pink
(b) Blond
(c) Red
(d) Black

9. Who have kept the bakery going during Ava’s recovery in Chapter 25?
(a) Fatima and Margaux
(b) Beatrix and Penelope
(c) Viviane and Emilienne
(d) Wilhelmina and Penelope

10. What does Nathaniel do to Ava after raping her in Chapter 23?
(a) He shoots her
(b) He hacks off her wings
(c) He beheads her
(d) He hangs her

11. What is the midsummer festival called in Wales, according to the narrator in Chapter 19?
(a) The Feast of Epona
(b) All Couples’ Day
(c) Kachinas
(d) Gathering Day

12. What is the date of the journal entry that concludes Chapter 16?
(a) May 15, 1959
(b) April 29, 1959
(c) May 11, 1959
(d) September 12, 1955

13. What kind of hat is Emilienne wearing in her dream in the beginning of Chapter 26?
(a) A cloche
(b) A fedora
(c) A bonnet
(d) A top hat

14. Whom does Henry tell his mother is hurt in the conclusion of Chapter 22?
(a) Margaux
(b) Pinna
(c) Fatima
(d) Gabe

15. Rowe has received a full scholarship to what college in Chapter 15?
(a) Berkeley College
(b) U.C.L.A.
(c) Harvard College
(d) Boston University

Short Answer Questions

1. Who asks Ava on the rooftop in Chapter 26, “It is all right, now? Yes?”

2. Who is the first person to discover Ava’s injured body in Chapter 24?

3. Who is described as “fluffing her bright-yellow hair” in Emilienne’s dream in the beginning of Chapter 26?

4. What is the journal entry dated that concludes Chapter 15?

5. What is the date of the diary entry that concludes Chapter 18?

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