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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Micromegas have to speak through to avoid hurting the humans' ears?
(a) A pillow.
(b) A flower.
(c) A toothpick.
(d) A balloon.

2. Where does Micromegas finally find human life-forms?
(a) A ship.
(b) A submarine.
(c) A prison.
(d) A school.

3. How tall are the Saturnians in "Micromegas"?
(a) 60,000 feet tall.
(b) 600 feet tall.
(c) 60 feet tall.
(d) 6,000 feet tall.

4. What does Julian's wife convince him to do?
(a) Have a son.
(b) Find his parents.
(c) Hunt.
(d) Kill her father, the Emperor.

5. What does Julian do for the leper that he comes across at his job?
(a) Gives him everything that he has.
(b) Hangs him by a fishing net.
(c) Shuns him.
(d) Drowns him.

6. What is the prophecy that Julian's mother hears about her son's future?
(a) He will be a great war hero.
(b) He will kill her.
(c) He will kill his father and marry her.
(d) He will be a saint.

7. Upon finding Earth, what does Micromegas think is the dominant life-form on Earth?
(a) Bees.
(b) Lizards.
(c) Elephants.
(d) Whales.

8. According to the narrator in "The Poor Boy's Toy", what have children learned to do?
(a) Love unintentionally.
(b) Boast.
(c) Distrust man.
(d) Trust everyone.

9. How does Desplein describe himself when his student questions him about attending mass?
(a) He is a religiously confused man with a God-owned soul.
(b) He is externally religious but internally atheistic.
(c) He is externally atheistic but internally religious.
(d) He is a freak of biblical proportions.

10. What must Micromegas use to see life on Earth?
(a) A drop of water.
(b) Special eyeglasses.
(c) A microscope.
(d) A magnifying glass.

11. To whom does the narrator in "The Old Clown" compare those yelling out "witticisms and jokes of a solid heavy humor"?
(a) Phaedrus.
(b) Jean Chapelain.
(c) Moliere.
(d) Tasso.

12. Why is Desplein's student surprised by Desplein's actions toward the water carrier?
(a) Desplein takes the man's daughter as payment.
(b) Desplein overcharges the man for treatment.
(c) Desplein does not charge him for treatment.
(d) Desplein does not treat the man's true ailment.

13. What planet is Micromegas from?
(a) Sinus.
(b) Sirius.
(c) Sympheraous.
(d) Saturn.

14. In "The Rope," what did the storyteller ask of the parents of the boy?
(a) To let the boy marry his daughter and live with him.
(b) To have them murder their son.
(c) To let him have their son.
(d) To let the boy live with him and go to school.

15. What does Desplein's student do when he follows Desplein into church?
(a) Hides in the back of the church.
(b) Kneels by him.
(c) Goes into confession.
(d) Tells the priest that Desplein does not belong in the church.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Julian's parents while they are sleeping in his wife's bed?

2. Why are people sprawled everywhere in "The Old Clown"?

3. According to the book, where were Baudelaire's most remarkable poems published?

4. What "gift" does Micromegas give to the humans he encounters?

5. According to "Minuet", what is the most violent loss a man can feel?

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