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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. How many girls do Helene and Joncour have?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 5.
(d) 4.
2. Where does Joncour take the letter to be translated?
(a) Kiev.
(b) China.
(c) Paris.
(d) Madame Blanche's.
3. What does Joncour see when the procession with the mistress goes by him?
(a) The brightly-colored fabrics.
(b) The mistress' eyes.
(c) The blue of the sky.
(d) The flames of war.
4. Where is Madame Blanche living at the end of the novel?
(a) Kiev.
(b) Paris.
(c) London.
(d) The Riviera.
5. The morning after Joncour catches up with Hara Kei's procession, what does he find?
(a) The boy hanging from a tree.
(b) The army killing the boy.
(c) The mistress hanging from a tree.
(d) Hara Kei hanging from a tree.
Short Answer Questions
1. When does Joncour go to his park and sit by the lake?
2. What does Joncour do in the house he buys?
3. When Helene and Joncour see Baldabiou off at the train station, what does Helene do?
4. Where does Joncour say the eggs hatched on his return fourth trip from Japan?
5. What does Joncour find on Helene's grave 2 months after she dies?
Short Essay Questions
1. On his final trip to Madame Blanche's, what does she tell Joncour about his wife that he did not know?
2. Why does Joncour fire his gun on the way out of town and startle the birds? What is he saying, and to whom? Who will get his message?
3. Why does Helene pretend not to notice the letters when they are clearly in plain sight?
4. On the fourth trip to Japan, when Joncour offers gold to Hara Kei, what is he buying?
5. On the fourth trip to Japan, what does the young boy offer Joncour to get him to follow him? Who is this boy? Who sent him? Why is he in the village alone?
6. Why do you think Madame Blanche wants to forget about her native language? Why does she make Joncour promise to never return to her for a translation?
7. For the fourth trip to Japan, who makes the decision to go? Why is this startling? Why does Baldabiou lie to everyone except Helene about the trip?
8. When Joncour finally tells Baldabiou about the girl in Japan he says, "To die of nostalgia for something you will never live," what does he mean?
9. When Joncour arrives home nine days late, what does he ask of his wife? Why does he ask her this?
10. What does Joncour mean when he says to the Englishman, "We are all marvelous, and we are all revolting"?
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