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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through II. Priest Valley and III. Joan Crawford’s Face.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the novel gloss “hypnagogic”?
(a) Falling asleep.
(b) Staying awake.
(c) Waking up.
(d) Staying asleep.

2. To what does the narrator compare cinephiles?
(a) Accountants.
(b) Analysts.
(c) Ambassadors.
(d) Architects.

3. With which of the following does the novel begin?
(a) “My initial contact with Lucien Dubois had been a cold bump.”
(b) “Neanderthals were prone to depression.”
(c) “An hour later, driving toward my meeting with Pascal Balmy, I found myself following a white Citroën panel truck.”
(d) “In 1939, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, writher, physician, war hero, invalid, anti-Semite, and author of novels full of grammatical ellipses…”

4. Where does Platon visit his mistress?
(a) Bagnolet.
(b) Romainville.
(c) Vincennes.
(d) Lafayette.

5. What book of the Bible does the narrator reference?
(a) Habakkuk.
(b) Ecclesiasticus.
(c) Malachi.
(d) Ecclesiastes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does Bruno call “late-arriving man”?

2. What crop do the Moulinards attempt to raise?

3. What label does the novel give to the earliest posited human languages?

4. To which of the following does Debord retire?

5. Which author’s residence does Lucien point out to the narrator?

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