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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. Who spoke the following quote about Mauriac: "God is not an artist, and neither is M. Mauriac"?
(a) Maupassant.
(b) Gide.
(c) Sartre.
(d) Ayme.

2. How did Mauriac live as a child?
(a) In fear.
(b) In a static pathway.
(c) In a nightmare.
(d) In a poetic trance.

3. Who did Gide dedicate "The Return of the Prodigal Son" to?
(a) Arthur Fontaine.
(b) Francis James.
(c) Charles-Louis Philippe.
(d) Paul Claudel.

4. After 1948, to what writing genre did Ayme devote most of his talent toward?
(a) Novellas.
(b) Plays.
(c) Novels.
(d) Short stories.

5. Who does Judas begin to visit when he decides he wants to know "the other side of things"?
(a) Soothsayers.
(b) Oracles.
(c) Pharisees.
(d) Holists.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does "hic et nunc" mean?

2. Who surrounded Mauriac during his childhood, like angels surrounded Jesus in the desert?

3. What does the main character's office door read in "The Passer-Through-Walls"?

4. What time was recess at Grand-Lebrun?

5. What is the prodigal son's mother afraid of?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is the Arab being transported to another village in "The Guest?"

2. Describe the sight in "The Guest" that Daru witnessed while he watched the two men come up the mountain to the schoolhouse.

3. Why does Daru believe that Balducci is playing a joke on him when he tells Daru of the order for Daru to transport the Arab?

4. What is the prodigal son planning on saying to his father to get his father to accept him back?

5. Describe Dutilleul in "The Passer-Through-Walls."

6. What does Daru do with the Arab at the end of the story?

7. How does Dutilleul come to find out about his power?

8. In "Grand-Lebrun," why does the narrator choose to recall his time at his former school?

9. What happened to Dutilleul's superior because of the scare that Dutilleul gave him?

10. Why does Judas claim that all young people should come and gaze upon his dead body?

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