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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 does Antoine describe the Spanish town in the middle of the Civil War?
(a) Darkened.
(b) Scarred.
(c) Flourishing.
(d) Destroyed.

2. Where was Antoine flying from when he crash landed in the desert?
(a) Saigon.
(b) Cairo.
(c) Paris.
(d) London.

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

4. What did Antoine use to make a bonfire after his crash landing?
(a) His clothes.
(b) His rucksack.
(c) A wing of the plane.
(d) A pile of dried droppings.

5. What always follows intelligence in children?
(a) Potential.
(b) Delicacy.
(c) Fallacy.
(d) Pride.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Guillaumet carrying in the plane when he left Antoine in the Sahara?

2. What is the color of the boy on the train?

3. What stamp does Antoine say marked all the people on the train?

4. What have the people on the train turned themselves into?

5. According to Antoine, how did the house the two girls lived in once look long ago?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. To what does Antoine compare the sergeant who reluctantly joined the war?

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

4. What caused Antoine to crash land in the desert?

5. What did Antoine do for Bark before he left the desert?

6. What does Antoine curse at the end of the book, and why?

7. How has the need for labor changed the people on the train?

8. What made Antoine know his survival in the desert was worth the effort?

9. What happened to slaves in the desert who were unable to serve?

10. Why does Antoine say the killing in war is ironic?

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