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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year is Bruno born?
(a) 1917.
(b) 1927.
(c) 1937.
(d) 1947.

2. What is the population of Priest Valley?
(a) 1100.
(b) 550.
(c) 2200.
(d) 0.

3. What label does the novel give to the earliest posited human languages?
(a) Adamic.
(b) Antediluvian.
(c) Nostratic.
(d) Enochian.

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

5. With which of the following does the II. Priest Valley begin?
(a) “An hour later, driving toward my meeting with Pascal Balmy, I found myself following a white Citroën panel truck.”
(b) “They paid me the exorbitant price I’d named.”
(c) “In 1939, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, writher, physician, war hero, invalid, anti-Semite, and author of novels full of grammatical ellipses…”
(d) “My initial contact with Lucien Dubois had been a cold bump.”

6. Which author’s residence does Lucien point out to the narrator?
(a) De Sade.
(b) Voltaire.
(c) Dumas.
(d) Hugo.

7. What does the French government introduce to control deer?
(a) Lynx.
(b) Snakes.
(c) Ocelots.
(d) Wolves.

8. How many attempts to guess Bruno’s email password does the narrator require to succeed?
(a) 11.
(b) 7.
(c) 3.
(d) 5.

9. Where does Platon get hair implants?
(a) Plaine-Monceau.
(b) Ballard.
(c) Auteuil.
(d) Chaillot.

10. What Ministry do those in Guyenne regard as opponents?
(a) Rural Coherence.
(b) Culture.
(c) National Education.
(d) Armed Forces and Veterans Affairs.

11. To which of the following does the narrator compare Lucien?
(a) Tinker.
(b) Soldier.
(c) Spy.
(d) Tailor.

12. What make of car does the narrator rent while in France?
(a) Škoda.
(b) Chrysler.
(c) Citroën.
(d) Fiat.

13. What is the name of Platon’s chauffeur?
(a) Jean-Luc.
(b) Geoffrey.
(c) Jacque.
(d) Georges.

14. What did Bruno’s son study?
(a) Geology.
(b) Hydrology.
(c) Ponerology.
(d) Eschatology.

15. On what highway is Priest Valley?
(a) 176.
(b) 198.
(c) 165.
(d) 187.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Lucien *playing* when the narrator first meets him?

2. In what year was the Cagot Rebellion?

3. Which of the following is Debord given by his brother-in-law?

4. Where does Debord write against wage work?

5. To whom does the narrator compare Pascal before meeting him?

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