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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What helps the reader to feel the suspense in the story along with the characters?
(a) Personification
(b) False Foreshawdowing
(c) Irony
(d) Metaphors

2. Which of the following words is a compound word?
(a) Threatening
(b) Schoolhouse
(c) Greater
(d) Thoughtful

3. Which of the following is an antonym of ignorance?
(a) Innonence
(b) Illiterate
(c) Unaware
(d) Intelligence

4. Of what ethnicity is Daru in this story?
(a) Algerian
(b) French Algerian
(c) French Arabic
(d) French

5. Daru is to hunter as Arab is to:
(a) Hunted
(b) Student
(c) Prey
(d) Foreign

6. Isolation is to crowded as indefinite is to:
(a) Unclear
(b) Confused
(c) Broad
(d) Limited

7. Which of the following words has both a prefix and a suffix?
(a) Threatening
(b) Chalkboard
(c) Disobeyed
(d) Message

8. Professor is to teacher as monk is to:
(a) Reverend
(b) Priest
(c) Friar
(d) Minister

9. How does the author say soldiers are brought together to become part of a shared community?
(a) Fatigue and alliances
(b) Dreams and goals
(c) Dreams and fatigue
(d) Fatigue and goals

10. Which of the following words is plural?
(a) Himself
(b) Freedom
(c) Moral
(d) Expresses

11. Which of the following is the opposite of the protagonist?
(a) Antagonist
(b) Oxymoron
(c) Hyperbole
(d) Allegory

12. Hunter is to prey as student is to:
(a) Knowledge
(b) Questions
(c) Answers
(d) Truth

13. Which of the following words is a compound word?
(a) Chalkboard
(b) Conclusion
(c) Threatening
(d) Disobeyed

14. The author compares the Daru's life to that of a what?
(a) Murder
(b) Soldier
(c) Monk
(d) Policeman

15. Which of the following could be a synonym for fate?
(a) Accident
(b) Choice
(c) Destiny
(d) Will

Short Answer Questions

1. Which emotion is shared by both Daru and the Arab when Daru awakens the Arab in the morning?

2. Which of the following is the best definition of imagery?

3. Why is Daru no longer part of a shared community?

4. Which of the following word choices shows past tense?

5. Which of the following means the opposite of what is normally expected?

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