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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. Approximately how many Moulinards live at the commune?
(a) 54.
(b) 63.
(c) 72.
(d) 45.

2. Where did Bruno’s older brother die?
(a) Hinzert.
(b) Auschwitz.
(c) Dachau.
(d) Buchenwald.

3. Where does Vito attend a conference on Jung?
(a) Rotterdam.
(b) Antwerp.
(c) Amsterdam.
(d) Ghent.

4. Which of the following agents was exposed online?
(a) Lynn Watson.
(b) Danielle Olivaw.
(c) Amanda Hastings.
(d) Claire Goodwin.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following grows in the churchyard at Vantôme?

2. Where does the narrator shop for supplies?

3. In which arrondissement had Lucien and Pascal grown up together?

4. Where had Platon been chased from?

5. What contest did the narrator witness in Switzerland?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How was Bruno’s older brother identified after World War II?

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

5. What does René report radicalized him?

6. Why is the narrator permitted to disagree with the intellectuals among the Moulinards?

7. Why, per Bruno, is there resistance to the idea of Neanderthal fishing?

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

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

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

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