3. Which of the following does the narrator encounter for sale along her route to her lodgings?
(a) Truffle oil.
(b) Olive oil.
(c) Lavender oil.
(d) Baby oil.

4. In what village had earth-moving equipment been sabotaged?
(a) Vouvray.
(b) Reugny.
(c) Tayssac.
(d) Vantôme.

5. What weather afflicts the narrator as she accompanies Lucien in filming?
(a) Tornado.
(b) Mistral.
(c) Derecho.
(d) Sirocco.

6. How old is the narrator at the beginning of the novel?
(a) 39.
(b) 34.
(c) 24.
(d) 29.

7. Where does Bruno note a skull containing features from two different human types was found?
(a) Chechnya.
(b) Croatia.
(c) Slovenia.
(d) Serbia.

8. What language does the narrator speak?
(a) Catalan.
(b) Spanish.
(c) Basque.
(d) Portuguese.

9. What language does the narrator speak?
(a) Turkish.
(b) Greek.
(c) Arabic.
(d) Italian.

10. Where had Lucien’s first intimate partner attended college?
(a) Paris.
(b) Nantes.
(c) Toulouse.
(d) Lyon.

11. In what village does the narrator meet Pascal?
(a) Tayssac.
(b) Reugny.
(c) Vantôme.
(d) Vouvray.

12. To whom does the narrator compare Pascal before meeting him?
(a) Simone de Beauvoir.
(b) Joan of Arc.
(c) Marie Antoinette.
(d) Marie Curie.

13. How many cubic centimeters does Bruno ascribe to the Neanderthal braincase?
(a) 8000.
(b) 800.
(c) 1800.
(d) 1000.

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

15. What size font does the narrator note Bruno uses?
(a) 14-point.
(b) 12-point.
(c) 24-point.
(d) 10-point.