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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 warned Antoine about the first wind storm he experienced in the desert?
(a) Insects.
(b) The moon.
(c) The French Sergeant.
(d) Snakes.

2. What does Antoine call himself at the end of the book?
(a) A gardener.
(b) A god.
(c) A pilot.
(d) A shepherd.

3. What makes the child on the train glow?
(a) His potential.
(b) His identity.
(c) His smile.
(d) His youth.

4. What do most soldiers do the night before a battle?
(a) Sleep.
(b) Write.
(c) Prepare themselves.
(d) Drink.

5. What have the people on the train turned themselves into?
(a) Cogs.
(b) Machines.
(c) Drones.
(d) Pawns.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Antoine headed when he crash landed in the desert?

2. How does Antoine describe the parents of the child on the train?

3. Where was the first oasis Antoine stayed?

4. Where did Antoine sleep after his crash landing?

5. What did a former French prince decide to become?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Mohammed differ from the other slaves Antoine had seen in the desert?

2. How did the Moorish men feel when they saw the waterfall in France?

3. How does Antoine start his chapter about oases?

4. How does Antoine describe the house the two girls from Paraguay lived in?

5. What does Antoine say the people on the train have sacrificed to bureaucracy?

6. To what does Antoine compare the people on the train?

7. How did Mohammed choose to prepare himself to return to his family?

8. What did Antoine see on the meteorology report before heading out to Saigon?

9. What does Antoine think happened to the girls since he last saw them?

10. How did Antoine and his mechanic feel as the journey to Saigon began?

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