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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 appellations does the narrator assign to Lucien’s uncle?
(a) The Base.
(b) The Blasé.
(c) The Curious.
(d) The Crooked.

2. Which of the following is noted as an alternative name for the Cagots?
(a) Gawain.
(b) Gahet.
(c) Gaheris.
(d) Gareth.

3. For whom had René worked?
(a) BMW.
(b) Daimler.
(c) Volkswagen.
(d) Opel.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What weapon does the narrator have for others’ use?

2. Where does Vito attend a conference on Jung?

3. Which of the following does the narrator deliver to Nadia?

4. From where had Denis and Françoise come to the Moulinards?

5. From which of the following does Burdmoore come?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator note is the most common utility vehicle in France?

2. What does René report radicalized him?

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

4. Why does Lucien posit there are stickers posted in the lodgings the narrator occupies?

5. Why do quinces confuse the narrator?

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

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

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

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

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

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