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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What skill does Stephen have that is needed by the brigade staff?

2. What happens to Jack in the tunnel explosion?

3. Elizabeth asks her mother about her father's papers because she is interested in ____________________.

4. What words of encouragement does Jeanne offer to Stephen?

5. What does the person in #135 tell Elizabeth about Stephen?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Elizabeth unlike her grandmother regarding her pregnancy?

2. What is Weir's response when Stephen asks him why he is so anxious to survive?

3. How does Jeanne make Stephen feel when he visits her?

4. What does Weir's worry about a pending attack foreshadow?

5. What does Colonel Gray tell Elizabeth about Stephen when she is able to locate him?

6. What shocks Jeanne about Stephen's appearance when he visit her during his leave?

7. Why does Elizabeth focus her family history search on World War I?

8. How does Stephen behave with Jeanne that shows he still loves Isabelle and that the war has affected his mental state?

9. Why does Jeanne hope to help Stephen who admits that he has lost reality?

10. What does Elizabeth learn about Stephen from his diary after Bob has cracked the code?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain the role of women in France in the early twentieth century. What precedents do they feel compelled to follow? What restrictions do they have? Do they have any freedoms that 21st century women do not have?

Essay Topic 2

Survival seems to be almost an unnamed character in the book. How pervasive is the sense of survival? Why does it have such a prevalent place in the characters' lives? Explain how an inanimate object or characteristic can be a character.

Essay Topic 3

Develop a character study of Jeanne. What are her physical traits? What motivates her? What are her personal characteristics? What else can you say about Jeanne?

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