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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 blood type was the Nazi soldier whose corpse Bruno and his friends looted?
(a) O.
(b) A.
(c) AB.
(d) B.

2. Which French novelist does the narrator commend?
(a) Flaubert.
(b) Proust.
(c) Maupassant.
(d) Baudelaire.

3. With which of the following does VI. Get Lucky begin?
(a) “They paid me the exorbitant price I’d named.”
(b) “My initial contact with Lucien Dubois had been a cold bump.”
(c) “Neanderthals were prone to depression.”
(d) “In 1939, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, writher, physician, war hero, invalid, anti-Semite, and author of novels full of grammatical ellipses…”

4. To where do Denis and Françoise mean to go from the Moulinards?
(a) Grenoble.
(b) Fréjus.
(c) Sazerac.
(d) Avignon.

5. What weapon does the narrator have for others’ use?
(a) Desert Eagle.
(b) Ruger Blackhawk.
(c) Colt M1911A1.
(d) Walther P38.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is a British torpedo gunboat struck by a passenger ship?

2. Where was René born?

3. Where does Céline flee after the Vichy regime falls?

4. What biker club had the narrator infiltrated?

5. Where had Platon appeared at an agricultural fair?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Pascal’s appearance when the narrator meets him differ from her expectations?

2. Per Pascal, why does Bruno part from his erstwhile Marxist associates?

3. How does the novel describe emotional labor (246)?

4. Why does the narrator voice skepticism of the commune to Pascal?

5. In the novel, what is an épicerie?

6. What is the subversive action the Moulinards plan at the agricultural festival?

7. Why does the narrator doubt Pascal’s violent intentions?

8. What does René report radicalized him?

9. Of what does René’s smell remind the narrator?

10. Why does Bruno’s daughter run the café in Vantôme?

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