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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Mayle's wife spots a man walking down the road to _______________ with a large dog at his side.
(a) Nice.
(b) Marseilles.
(c) Paris.
(d) Ménerbes.

2. How does Mayle's wife feel when Mayle suggests that they should search for the owner?
(a) She is relieved.
(b) She is sad.
(c) She is angry.
(d) She is not enthusiastic.

3. Peter decides to travel to this town to learn if there is any validity to the man's claim about singing toads. His inquiries there lead him to a man named Monsieur ____________.
(a) Crouteaux.
(b) Cergy.
(c) Germaine.
(d) Salques.

4. What does Monsieur X invite Peter to do next spring?
(a) Join him in his truffle hunt.
(b) Participate in a dog show.
(c) Take a cooking class at his restaurant.
(d) Try his truffle soup.

5. How does Peter feel about the food placed before him?
(a) He does not like it.
(b) He is unable to resist it.
(c) He wonders what it is.
(d) He is not impressed by it.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the card signed?

2. Peter's friend, Frank, calls him from London. He seems worried and on edge. Why?

3. Peter receives the ______________ birthday card in his life.

4. Inferior Italian________________ are often passed off as the superior French ones.

5. What does Mayle fear about the festival?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Peter's birthday card. Why might he have been given this?

2. How is Peter Mayle confused by the American visitor? How does this lead to a jab at Americans?

3. What happens to Faustin? How does he feel about this?

4. What does Monsieur X ask Peter to do next spring? What does this reveal about their relationship?

5. How does Mayle's wife first come across Boy? How does this first encounter lead her to act? How do you feel about her behavior?

6. How is the toad story explained? Is it as odd and sensational as Peter had hoped? Why or why not?

7. Why is Peter's friend, Frank, worried and on edge? Should he feel this way?

8. Why does Mayle's wife bring the dog home? Should she have done this? Why or why not?

9. What takes place prior to Boy and the Gregoires' dog breeding? Why does the breeding not go as planned?

10. What does Mayle say about the life of a writer?

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