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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. What does M. de Bassompierre ask Lucy to do for Paulina?
(a) Be her personal tutor.
(b) Teach her French.
(c) Help her get ready for dinner parties.
(d) Be her companion.

2. After the concert, who does Dr. John say he might give his lottery prize to?
(a) Rosine.
(b) Mrs. Bretton.
(c) Lucy.
(d) Ginevra.

3. Ginevra and Lucy attend a speech given in honor of the birthday of a young prince. Who is the speaker?
(a) Madame Beck.
(b) M. de Bassompierre.
(c) M. Paul.
(d) The king.

4. Why is Ginevra Fanshawe also going to France?
(a) To join her father in France.
(b) Because she is friends with Lucy.
(c) To go to school in Villette.
(d) Because she is looking for work too.

5. In Chapter Four, Lucy leaves the Brettons. Why?
(a) To travel .
(b) To return to family.
(c) To join Paulina.
(d) To go to school.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Miss Fanshawe comes to speak with Lucy in her classroom, what is she pleased to hear?

2. When Ginevra and Lucy are going to the speech, what comment does Ginevra make about her and Lucy both going to visit the de Bassompierre's?

3. What nickname does Graham tend to call Lucy?

4. What does Dr. John think that the nun is?

5. What color is the new dress that Mrs. Bretton purchases for Lucy?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Miss Marchmont.

2. How does Lucy come to be at La Terrasse?

3. How does Lucy seem to feel about her vocation being made known to the Bassompierre's?

4. Why does Lucy decide to bury her letters from Dr. John?

5. Why do Ginevra's words that she believed Lucy "a little nobody" not matter to Lucy?

6. Why does Lucy get sent to the garret by M. Paul?

7. Why is Lucy disappointed when Graham calls her his Silent Shadow?

8. What happens to Lucy as she is looking for the inn in Villette?

9. Why doesn't Lucy like the readings from the "Old Book"?

10. How is Lucy's voyage to France?

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