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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bardamu realize has happened to him in Section 11 after he wakes up from his illness?
(a) He has been sold to an oarsman
(b) He has been kidnapped
(c) He has been rescued
(d) He has been stolen

2. Where does Bardamu decide to travel to in Section 8?
(a) China
(b) Britain
(c) Africa
(d) America

3. What important 'kit' does Major Pincon own?
(a) The map
(b) The foodstores
(c) The guns
(d) The armor

4. What is the name of the teacher that Bardamu meets while incarcerated in Section 5?
(a) Princhard
(b) Paraprine
(c) Baryton
(d) Robinson

5. Whom do they find at the house when they arrive there?
(a) Henrouille
(b) Alcide
(c) Robinson
(d) Princhard

6. Where does Lola come from?
(a) America
(b) Germany
(c) Africa
(d) Britain

7. Who does Bardamu meet at his trading outpost in Section 10?
(a) Madelon
(b) Robinson
(c) Princhard
(d) Lola

8. Why does Lola want to help France in the First World War?
(a) She wants to be a heroine and to meet a hero
(b) She wants the money
(c) She is bored
(d) She doesn't really

9. How do the patients amuse themselves at the hospital?
(a) By making fun of the Normals
(b) By attacking and playing jokes on the staff
(c) By playing pool
(d) By attempting to be more patriotic than the others

10. What has the father in Section 7 already done?
(a) Hung himself
(b) Given his money to Robinson
(c) Welcomed home his son
(d) Gone out

11. What is Bardamu surprised at while shopping in Africa?
(a) How honesty everyone is
(b) How cheap everything he finds is
(c) How brave everyone is
(d) How everyone is trying to cheat anyone else

12. What illness does Bardamu suffer from in Section 11?
(a) Typhoid
(b) Denge fever
(c) Polio
(d) Malarial fever

13. What event is about to happen in world history, across Europe at the beginning of the book?
(a) The First World War
(b) The Black Death
(c) The Second World War
(d) The Korean War

14. Where is Bardamu incarcerated?
(a) In a civilian prison
(b) In a prisoner of war camp
(c) In a military prison
(d) A military hospital

15. What is the only thing that Bardamu wishes for in Section 9?
(a) To go back to the hospital
(b) To go back to the war
(c) To go back to Paris
(d) To get out of the jungle

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the soldiers have to do every month in order to get supplies?

2. Who does Bardamu start to hang around with in Section 7?

3. Whom does Bardamu meet in Paris that he falls in lust for?

4. In Section 4, where does Bardamu begin the narrative?

5. Where does Bardamu wake up after his illness in Section 11?

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