View a FREE sample

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 do scientists find Neanderthals captured?
(a) Golden eagles.
(b) Condors.
(c) Ostriches.
(d) Cassowaries.

2. How does the novel gloss the term “kireru”?
(a) Adults snapping.
(b) Adults playing.
(c) Children snapping.
(d) Children playing.

3. Which of the following grows in the churchyard at Vantôme?
(a) Hogweed.
(b) Thistles.
(c) Broad-leaved Dock.
(d) Tobacco.

4. In which arrondissement had Lucien and Pascal grown up together?
(a) 14th.
(b) 16th.
(c) 15th.
(d) 13th.

5. What year’s baby picture of Debord does the narrator note seeing?
(a) 1932.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1936.
(d) 1928.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following accompanies Platon to Guyenne?

2. Where does Bruno go to study earth science?

3. In which city had Pascal fought Italian police?

4. What biker club had the narrator infiltrated?

5. Which of the following is among Pascal’s aphorisms?

Short Essay Questions

1. What prevents Lucien from filming in the Alpilles?

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

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

4. Why does Platon travel to the Guyenne with minimal staff?

5. Why had authorities suspected Pascal was in New York City?

6. What does the narrator remark agents do after their infiltrative assignments end?

7. What does the novel describe a “screen memory” as being (187)?

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

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

10. Why does the narrator rule out Florence as a potential anti-Pascal actor?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 481 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample