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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mauriac recall his mother saying she did with fire?

2. In what year did Francois Mauriac win the Nobel Peace Prize?

3. According to the editor, what did Claudel never make to his public?

4. How does the prodigal son think that his father will react to his return?

5. What was the name of the critical work that Ayme wrote?

Short Essay Questions

1. In "Grand-Lebrun," describe the "little old women" in the narrator's story.

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

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

4. Who was "caught" by Jesus, according to Judas?

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

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

7. Why does Judas claim that readers should not be against the Pharisees?

8. According to the narrator in "Grand-Lebrun," what causes children to look for God?

9. Why did Daru have bags of wheat in the schoolhouse?

10. Why did Judas find himself above all other of Jesus' disciples?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What does the garden represent for Jean Bridelle in "The Minuet?" What does the garden represent for the old couple in the story? How are their feelings for the garden similar? How are they different?

Essay Topic 2

State the ironies in "The Death of Judas." Why are these examples ironic? Do they "justify" Judas' reasoning behind his decisions? How?

Essay Topic 3

Micromegas is banned from his planet for writing a heretical book. He goes on a journey that allows him to ask a very important question to the inhabitants of Earth. Why is the question so important to Micromegas? What point is he making by asking it? What is the relevance of his journey and the question?

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