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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To which of the following does the narrator compare Debord?
(a) Goldfish.
(b) Silverfish.
(c) Dogfish.
(d) Catfish.

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

3. What does the narrator order to drink when she first meets Lucien?
(a) Cognac.
(b) Pastis.
(c) Absinthe.
(d) Eau-de-vie.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What Ministry do those in Guyenne regard as opponents?

3. What filmmaker’s work does Lucien associate with Priest Valley?

4. What language does the narrator speak?

5. What feature of Neanderthal physiology is described as a sunk cost?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator note is the trick of riding backwards?

2. Why does the narrator prefer listening to older men to listening to younger men?

3. How does Bruno posit that the Neanderthals first used tobacco?

4. What bothers the narrator about nature?

5. How does the narrator regard having a good accent?

6. Why do the narrator and Vito get along?

7. To what does the narrator ascribe Bruno’s use of italics?

8. What does Bruno note is the distinction between modern humans’ early art and that of the Neanderthal?

9. What does Bruno note is the purpose of the Neanderthal large face?

10. What is eau-de-vie?

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