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

2. Which of the following does the narrator note hearing as she and Lucien are driven to a hotel?
(a) Daft Punk.
(b) King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard.
(c) LFMAO.
(d) Danger Doom.

3. Which of the following does Bruno deplore?
(a) Creuse.
(b) Périgord.
(c) Dordogne.
(d) Savoie.

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

5. In what city does the narrator first meet Lucien?
(a) Nantes.
(b) Toulouse.
(c) Lyon.
(d) Paris.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does Bruno suggest might be a Neanderthal holdover?

2. In what year is Debord a problem for the French government?

3. What language does the narrator speak?

4. Where does Platon get hair implants?

5. What is the population of Priest Valley?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the narrator sleep well on her first night lodging near the Moulinards?

2. What reasons does the narrator posit for Bruno keeping his fires small?

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

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

5. For what is the phrase “reabsorbed into the greater chain of being” (108) a euphemism?

6. How does the narrator justify shoplifting?

7. Why does the narrator posit Platon’s chauffeur despises him?

8. Why do the narrator and Vito get along?

9. What does the narrator find evoked by Lucien’s posture when she first meets him?

10. What is a lavoir?

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