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

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

3. Which of the following does Bruno suggest might be a Neanderthal holdover?
(a) Mothman.
(b) Sasquatch.
(c) Bean sidhe.
(d) Rougarou.

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

5. Where does Debord write against wage work?
(a) Rue Mazarine.
(b) Rue des Beaux Arts.
(c) Rue de Nevers.
(d) Rue de Seine.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what discipline had the narrator pursued graduate education?

2. From where does Platon hail?

3. What Soviet researcher’s work does Bruno reference?

4. To where does the narrator accompany Lucien for his filming?

5. What book of the Bible does the narrator reference?

Short Essay Questions

1. On what mission does the narrator first encounter Priest Valley?

2. How does the narrator justify shoplifting?

3. How had a megabasin in Limousin been sabotaged?

4. What does Lucien do to pay his bills?

5. What is eau-de-vie?

6. Why does the narrator balk at graffiti?

7. Why does the narrator claim the occupation she does when she moves in with Lucien?

8. How does Bruno characterize the myth of Prometheus and Epimetheus?

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

10. To what does Bruno ascribe the persistence of wild-man legends?

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