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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. What does Daru hope the Arab is doing in the middle of the night?
(a) Going to the restroom
(b) Running away
(c) Making food
(d) Going to the police headquarters

2. What does Daru not want to do?
(a) Continue as teacher at the schoolhouse
(b) Walk in the snow
(c) Turn the Arab into the police
(d) Talk to the Arab

3. What does Daru do while the Arab washes up?
(a) Loads his guns with ammunition
(b) Reads
(c) Washes the dishes
(d) Tidies up his bedroom

4. What season does the story take place?
(a) Winter
(b) Spring
(c) Summer
(d) Fall

5. What does Balducci give Daru before he leaves?
(a) An extra gun
(b) Supplies
(c) A horse
(d) Restraints

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Daru feel about the Arab's crimes?

2. What crime has the Arab committed?

3. What did Daru tell Balducci he would deny?

4. Who is considered the protagonist of this story?

5. What does Daru feel when the Arab coughs behind him?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Balducci tell Daru that surprises him?

2. Why is Daru no longer a part of a community of men?

3. Why have the villagers stopped coming to the schoolhouse?

4. What type of story could this be considered?

5. What does the end of the Arab's freedom cause in Daru?

6. What does Daru say about this surprising order?

7. Why does Daru leave the decision as to his fate in the Arab's own hands?

8. What does the sense of anticipation in the reader mimic?

9. When do Daru and the Arab seem to be experiencing the same emotion?

10. Why does Daru tell Balducci not to bother restraining the Arab?

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