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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Five: January 1941: Chapters 68-80.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of Chapter 2 in Part Zero: 7 August, 1944?
(a) Leaflets.
(b) D-Day.
(c) Grotto.
(d) Bombers.

2. How many years does the museum curator say have passed since the Sea of Flames was shut away in a vault by orders of the king, in Part One: 1934?
(a) 59.
(b) 200.
(c) 196.
(d) 301.

3. What has Marie-Laure's father been building a model of in Part Three: June 1940?
(a) A ship.
(b) Paris.
(c) A train.
(d) Saint-Malo.

4. What is the date of the telegram that directs Daniel LeBlanc to return to Paris at the end of the month in Part Three?
(a) July 12, 1939.
(b) September 15, 1940.
(c) March 10, 1941.
(d) December 10, 1940.

5. Where does the furniture lorry drop off Marie-Laure and her father in Part Three: June 1940?
(a) Evreux.
(b) Cancale.
(c) Zollverein.
(d) Versailles.

Short Answer Questions

1. The following is one of the quotes which opens the novel: "It would not have been possible for us to take power or to use it in the ways we have without the radio." Who is attributed to this quote?

2. How many bombers have already turned and climbed before the debris begins hitting the ground in Part Two: 8 August, 1944?

3. Where are the citizens instructed to surrender their radio transmitters, according to the notices in Part Three: June 1940?

4. What does the word "solicitous" mean as used in Part Two: 8 August, 1944?

5. What term from Part Four: 8 August 1944 refers to a German two-seated dive-bomber with a single in-line engine?

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