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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is described as “fluffing her bright-yellow hair” in Emilienne’s dream in the beginning of Chapter 26?
(a) Wilhelmina
(b) Pierette
(c) Margaux
(d) Viviane

2. How does Jack contact Viviane to say he’s found her son in the beginning of Chapter 20?
(a) He sends a messenger
(b) He calls on the telephone
(c) He sends a telegram
(d) He knocks on the door

3. Who sends daily letters to Ava while she remains recuperating at home in Chapter 25?
(a) Gabe
(b) Jack
(c) Dublin
(d) Rowe

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

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

6. What does Gabe have the idea to model his wings from in Chapter 14?
(a) A bat
(b) A moth
(c) A butterfly
(d) An airplane

7. The birds that Ava finds in the third floor of her home in Chapter 26 are doves that have bred with what kind of birds?
(a) Eagles
(b) Crows
(c) Owls
(d) Sparrows

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

9. What breed of dog is Trouver said to be in Chapter 14?
(a) Saint Bernard
(b) Great Dane
(c) Great Pyrenees
(d) German Shepherd

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

11. Whose apparitions attack and ultimately destroy Nathaniel Sorrows in Chapter 24?
(a) Fatima’s and Margaux’s
(b) Margaux’s and Pierette’s
(c) Rene’s and Penelope’s
(d) Iris’s and Gabe’s

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

13. What does Ava describe hanging over the mantle in Marigold Pie’s home in Chapter 23?
(a) A picture of the ocean
(b) A portrait of a nun
(c) A needlepoint kitten
(d) A stuffed deer head

14. What is the date of the diary entry that concludes Chapter 18?
(a) June 21, 1959
(b) September 12, 1955
(c) May 15, 1959
(d) May 11, 1959

15. Who is said to have changed the most following Ava’s attack in Chapter 25?
(a) Cardigan
(b) Gabe
(c) Fatima
(d) Iris Sorrows

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What kind of beauty does Cardigan tell Ava she has in Chapter 15?

3. What is Cardigan’s response when Ava asks her in the opening of Chapter 16, “What’s his name?”

4. The narrator says in Chapter 19 that in “ancient Gaul the midsummer celebration was called” what?

5. What does Viviane recall Jack giving her as a gift before leaving for college in Chapter 14?

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