Answers In Summertime Saga — French Quiz

Étienne Dubois, the demanding French teacher at Summerville High, had a strict policy: fail his quiz, and you’d spend your Saturday writing verb conjugations on the blackboard. For the protagonist, whose schedule was already packed with part-time jobs, pizza deliveries, and peculiar personal favors, that was not an option.

Jenny rattled off the trickiest ones: The next morning, the protagonist walked into Room 207 with coffee breath and confidence. Г‰tienne, with his pencil-thin mustache and accusatory glare, handed out the blank quiz.

Translate: “The sister has a pencil.” He paused, then wrote: La sœur a un crayon.

Jenny, never one to miss an opportunity, smirked. “I’ll trade you. The answers for one hour of your help with my… �special project’ later this week.”

she whispered. “For the present tense of �être’: je suis, tu es, il/elle/on est, nous sommes, vous êtes, ils/elles sont.”

“My father is near the window.” Mon père est près de la fenêtre.

“What about the vocab?” he asked, flexing his cramping hand.