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French Subject Test
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went to see Ellenore; she was expecting me. She wanted to speak: I asked her to listen to me. I sat next
to her, since I could hardly stand up, and I continued speaking, stopping quite often in the process.
“I have not come to appeal the verdict you have given; I have not come to retract an avowal which
might have offended you: this would be useless. This love which you refuse is indestructible: even the
effort I am making right now to speak calmly to you is proof of the intensity of a feeling that offends
you. But I did not ask you to see me to speak about this feeling; on the contrary, I want to ask you to
forget it, to put aside the memory of a moment of delirium, not to punish me because you know a
secret I should have kept hidden in the depths of my soul.”
74. Why does the narrator go to Ellenore?
(A) He wants to speak to her about someone.
(B) He loves Ellenore’s sister.
(C) He hopes for a great success.
(D) He wants to see her.
75. When does the narrator go to see Ellenore?
(A) In the middle of the night.
(B) Very early in the morning.
(C) In the afternoon.
(D) In the morning.
76. The narrator admits
(A) that he was in prison.
(B) that he is proud.
(C) that he cannot stop loving Ellenore.
(D) that he has proof of Ellenore’s love.
77. The narrator would like
(A) not to see Ellenore again.
(B) to continue to see her as before.
(C) Ellenore to leave forever.
(D) to leave forever.
One evening in August (she was eighteen then), they convinced her to come to the Colleville fair. She
was immediately dazed, stupefied by the fiddlers’ din, the lights in the trees, the multicolored cloth-
ing, the laces, the gold crosses, this mass of people all jumping at once. She was standing aside
modestly when an apparently well-off young man, who had been smoking his pipe while leaning with
both elbows on a coal-cart, came to ask her to dance. He bought her cider, coffee, cakes, a scarf, and,
thinking that she had guessed his intentions, offered to accompany her home. Next to an oatfield, he
brutally pushed her down. She became frightened and started to scream. He went away.
78. We can suppose that “she”
(A) forced friends to go with her to Colleville.
(B) went alone to Colleville.
(C) went with a friend to Colleville.
(D) was taken by friends to Colleville.
79. At the Colleville fair there
(A) are very few people.
(B) are only women.
(C) are only men.
(D) are many people.

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