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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many days does the trip to the bagne take?
(a) 27.
(b) 7.
(c) 4.
(d) 18.

2. In what do the other prisoners seem to not have any interest?
(a) Making wine.
(b) Writing letters.
(c) Escaping.
(d) Cleaning their cells.

3. What is Papillon's sentence?
(a) Twenty years to life.
(b) Five years of hard labor.
(c) Life in prison with ZSSSSSSSSSShard labor.
(d) Death.

4. What is the name of the ship that transfers Papillon and the other escapees back to the bagne?
(a) Mana.
(b) Luna.
(c) Sol.
(d) Juno.

5. Who is the man who serves as clerk on the island?
(a) Depaul.
(b) Dubois.
(c) Durand.
(d) Dega.

6. Which one of the escapees leaves a note under his pillow stating that he has moved and left no forwarding address?
(a) Cloche.
(b) Clousseau.
(c) Chevalier.
(d) Clousiot.

7. What happens to Clousiot after two years in solitary confinement?
(a) He commits suicide.
(b) He goes crazy.
(c) He dies a few days after his release.
(d) He is sent back to France.

8. Who is the warden at the Royale bagne?
(a) Boutin.
(b) Bonnet.
(c) Bourque.
(d) Barrot.

9. Why is Clousiot hospitalized on the island?
(a) For tuberculosis.
(b) For a broken leg.
(c) For dysentery.
(d) For malaria.

10. One of the men in Papillon's group grew up at the bagne and is ___________________.
(a) a judge's son.
(b) a cook's son.
(c) a minister's son.
(d) a prison guard's son.

11. What does the man in #19 say is his personal goal?
(a) To consider Papillon's appeal.
(b) To let Papillon have a cell near a window.
(c) To shorten his time in jail.
(d) To work on Papillon's appeal.

12. Papillon's friends smuggled in a coconut and _______________ for him every day in solitary.
(a) Fish.
(b) Wine.
(c) Cigarettes.
(d) Whiskey.

13. Why are Papillon and Clousiot unable to make their escape from Colombia?
(a) They get malaria and go out of their minds.
(b) They break bones when they jump off a wall.
(c) They both get dysentery and cannot walk.
(d) They are too weak from starvation.

14. Which island do the escapees reach after days at sea?
(a) Bahamas.
(b) Trinidad.
(c) Jamaica.
(d) St. Barts.

15. What does Papillon show the man in #29 to indicate that Papillon is protecting Galgani?
(a) A glass shard.
(b) A needle.
(c) A syringe.
(d) A lancet.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color predominates the courtroom in which Papillon is tried?

2. Which prisoner breaks his leg in the escape?

3. Who buys a boat for Papillon and the other escapees?

4. What sentence are men never given in Colombia?

5. How does the man in #42 break his leg?

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