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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. In remembering his time at Grand-Lebrun, what season is it?
(a) Summer.
(b) Winter.
(c) Fall.
(d) Spring.

2. What does Mauriac recall his mother saying she did with fire?
(a) Feared it.
(b) Lived it.
(c) Ate it.
(d) Drank it.

3. Why has the Arab been arrested in "The Guest"?
(a) Murder.
(b) Weapons possession.
(c) Thievery.
(d) Assault on a military officer.

4. What is the first facial feature that Daru notices about the Arab?
(a) His eyes.
(b) His teeth.
(c) His lips.
(d) His nose.

5. What does the main character's office door read in "The Passer-Through-Walls"?
(a) "Storeroom."
(b) "Private."
(c) "Exit Only."
(d) "No Entry."

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Daru keep in the school house to distribute to the schoolchildren?

2. What did Mauriac sometimes consider himself?

3. In "The Return of the Prodigal Son", how does Gide describe his literary work?

4. What would Mauriac say in front of a mirror?

5. What did Mauriac's teachers not consider him?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Judas have the right to transfer funds into his own personal account?

2. What does the prodigal son's father do when the prodigal son returns home?

3. What were the circumstances surrounding Dutilleul's first burglary?

4. How does the prodigal son answer his father about his reasons for returning home?

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

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

7. Why did the narrator live in a "poetic trance" while at Grand-Lebrun?

8. Why did the prodigal son leave home?

9. According to the editor, why is Francois Mauriac "one of the most sensitive witnesses of our threatened world?"

10. What did Dutilleul's coworkers do when they found out that he was the "Werewolf?"

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