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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Pierre-Marie believe about Esperanza's story?
(a) He thinks it is a sad story.
(b) He thinks it is a tall tale.
(c) He thinks that Mathilde is telling it wrong.
(d) He thinks it is all a lie.

2. Why did Cornflower try to eat tainted meat?
(a) To avoid being killed by an enemy soldier.
(b) As penance for suriving when his friend did not.
(c) To kill himself.
(d) To make himself appear jaundiced.

3. What does Mathilde search for as she begins to try to prove Pierre-Marie wrong?
(a) The trench named Bingo.
(b) A stamp.
(c) Manech's commanding officer.
(d) Military records.

4. Why did Elodie Gordes hire the private investigator?
(a) To find her long lost lover.
(b) To find another clue to where her husband might be living.
(c) To understand the truth of that day at Bingo.
(d) To have her husband declared legally dead.

5. What question did Germain Pier's letter answer for Mathilde?
(a) If Gordes was indeed dead.
(b) If Gordes was one of the condemned men.
(c) If Gordes was wearing German boots.
(d) If Gordes was indeed related to Poux.

6. What were those that were convicted of self-mutilation but not sentenced to death required to do?
(a) Complete hard labor.
(b) Spend their days in jail.
(c) Assassinate enemy soldiers.
(d) Leave the army.

7. Who does Sylvain go to visit?
(a) Jean-Baptiste Santini.
(b) Mariette Notre-Dame.
(c) Urbain Chardolot.
(d) Celestin Poux.

8. Why does the smile make the other men uncomfortable?
(a) Because they know he is being led to his death.
(b) Because it has an eerie look to it.
(c) Because even as he yells, he smiles.
(d) Because it does not reach his eyes.

9. Who writes to Mathilde in January of 1920?
(a) Celestin Poux.
(b) Veronique Passavant.
(c) Benjamin Gordes.
(d) Captain Favourier.

10. Who was the only man not to answer to his name according to Captain Favourier's letter?
(a) Common Law.
(b) Six-Soux.
(c) Angel.
(d) Manech.

11. What wish does Captain Favourier speak of in his letter?
(a) The wish to get orders to collect the men.
(b) The wish that he will be forgiven for what he did.
(c) The wish that he had ignored orders.
(d) The wish Esperanza forget everything that was done.

12. What year did Biscuit and Eskimo stop being friends?
(a) 1918.
(b) 1912.
(c) 1916.
(d) 1917.

13. What season is it as this novel opens?
(a) Fall.
(b) Winter.
(c) Spring.
(d) Summer.

14. Who does Mathilde think was the woman who visited the Eskimo's lover?
(a) Veronique Passavant.
(b) Tima Lambardi.
(c) Pierre Marie.
(d) Elodi Gordes.

15. In what year was this novel made into a French film?
(a) 2008.
(b) 2003.
(c) 2005.
(d) 2001.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Eskimo want to be given to his lover?

2. How does Mathilde gain information about Mariette's whereabouts?

3. How many men are being led to their deaths at the beginning of this novel?

4. What month is it as this chapter opens?

5. What did Little Louis learn about Biscuit?

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