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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Passer-Through-Walls by Marcel Ayme.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Micromegas respond to the "knowledge" of Thomas Aquinas' book?
(a) He leaves immediately.
(b) He becomes angry.
(c) He cries.
(d) He laughs.

2. What does Micromegas decide to do with his time of exile?
(a) Start a family.
(b) Travel the universe.
(c) Vacation on Mars only.
(d) Search for his family.

3. What is the Emperor's name who Julian frees from the Muslims?
(a) Occitania.
(b) Augustus.
(c) Ferdinand.
(d) Dartanian.

4. How long is Micromegas' term of exile?
(a) 800 years.
(b) 800,000 years.
(c) 80 years.
(d) 8,000 years.

5. What does the prodigal son say he can still taste, even after partaking of the calf at the feast?
(a) Sweet acorns.
(b) Twigs.
(c) Rat.
(d) Grugs.

Short Answer Questions

1. How tall is Micromegas?

2. In "The Rope," what did the boy's mother want to see at the storyteller's home?

3. What story made Maupassant famous?

4. Why are adults celebrating in "The Old Clown"?

5. What does the prodigal son first say made him come back?

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