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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 Stephen recall about the last time he and Weir were together?
(a) They cleaned their weapons.
(b) They fought.
(c) They were on leave in Paris.
(d) They paid for prostitutes.

2. What does Jeanne tell Stephen about Isabelle?
(a) She is living in Amiens.
(b) She is terminally ill.
(c) She has three children.
(d) She has remarried.

3. Where does Elizabeth's mother live?
(a) Twickenham.
(b) Nottingham.
(c) Cambridge.
(d) Hanover.

4. What does Stephen promise the German soldier who rescues him?
(a) To send him some photographs.
(b) To write about him in his diary.
(c) To name his son after him.
(d) To write to him when he returns home.

5. How many men, including himself, still survive from Stephen's original platoon?
(a) 12.
(b) 16.
(c) 3.
(d) 51.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the German soldier do when he realizes Stephen is an English soldier?

2. Isabelle tells Stephen about meeting and falling in love with a _____________________.

3. What does Jeanne admit to Stephen?

4. What organization does Elizabeth visit in Buckinghamshire to try to learn more about Stephen?

5. What does Stephen recall when he visits Amiens?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is the German officer who tries to locate Stephen and what has alerted him to his location in the tunnel?

2. Isabelle is in love with Max, but in what way does her love for Stephen exist?

3. Why does Jeanne hope to help Stephen who admits that he has lost reality?

4. What does Elizabeth learn about Stephen from his diary after Bob has cracked the code?

5. What is Weir's response when Stephen asks him why he is so anxious to survive?

6. What does Weir's worry about a pending attack foreshadow?

7. What is Robert's response when Elizabeth asks when he will leave his wife?

8. What shocks Stephen about Isabelle's appearance and what secret does she withhold from him?

9. What are the circumstances that have Stephen and Jack trapped in a tunnel?

10. What accounts for Stephen's indifference when he returns to the Front in 1918 France?

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