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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Ava attempts to find an exit to Marigold Pie’s home, she enters a room filled with what dead animals in Chapter 23?
(a) Dogs
(b) Birds
(c) Cats
(d) Bats

2. What is Cardigan’s response when Ava asks her in the opening of Chapter 16, “What’s his name?”
(a) Nathaniel Sorrows
(b) Jeremiah Flannery
(c) Barnaby Callahoo
(d) William Peyton

3. What does Ava say Marigold Pie willed to her when she died, in Chapter 26?
(a) Her car
(b) Nathaniel’s journal
(c) Her house
(d) All of her belongings

4. In Emilienne’s dream in the beginning of Chapter 26, she is transported back to what location?
(a) New York
(b) London
(c) Ireland
(d) France

5. 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) Sorrowful
(b) Solitary
(c) Privileged
(d) Difficult

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

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

8. Who packs up her suitcases and leaves her husband in Chapter 24?
(a) Margaux
(b) Wilhelmina
(c) Beatrix Griffith
(d) Laura Griffith

9. According to the narrator in Chapter 26, “No one had occupied the third floor of our house since the days of” whom?
(a) William Peyton
(b) Fatima Ines
(c) Wilhelmina
(d) Beatrix Griffith

10. How many months has it been since the Summer Solstice when Ava is brought home from the hospital in Chapter 25?
(a) 3
(b) 4
(c) 6
(d) 5

11. Emilienne’s brother says to her in Chapter 26, “We were hoping you’d be able to play us a tune on” what?
(a) That harpsichord of yours
(b) That flute of yours
(c) That piano of yours
(d) That guitar of yours

12. What is the date of the journal entry that concludes Chapter 17?
(a) September 12, 1955
(b) May 15, 1959
(c) March 1, 1904
(d) May 26, 1959

13. What does Viviane note that there are none of in Jack’s home in Chapter 22?
(a) Televisions
(b) Family photos
(c) Telephones
(d) Kitchen appliances

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

15. Who is sleeping next to Ava when she awakens in the hospital in Chapter 24?
(a) Gabe and Emilienne
(b) Emilienne and Viviane
(c) Henry and Jack
(d) Fatima and Rene

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from Chapter 27 refers to the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning?

2. What do Ava and Cardigan use to concoct a harness to hold down Ava’s wings in Chapter 15?

3. In Chapter 18, Gabe begins taking work in other neighborhoods and asks out a waitress from what location?

4. What does Viviane see in the backyard where Jack had been searching for King Tut’s tomb when Viviane met him, in Chapter 22?

5. Who is the strange man sitting on Ava’s bed when she awakens in the night at the end of Chapter 25?

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