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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does the novel note is called the handy man?

2. In what village had earth-moving equipment been sabotaged?

3. With which of the following does the II. Priest Valley begin?

4. Where does Debord write against wage work?

5. Which of the following does Pascal claim the Moulinards plant?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Bruno posit is the root cause of depression?

2. What does the narrator say about beauty?

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

4. On what mission does the narrator first encounter Priest Valley?

5. What does the narrator note is the trick of riding backwards?

6. To what does the narrator ascribe Bruno’s use of italics?

7. Why does the narrator note being happy to be courted by Lucien?

8. To what does Bruno ascribe the decline of the Neanderthal?

9. Why does Serge agree to work for Lucien?

10. Why is the narrator dismissed from federal service?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Readerly attention makes much of the narrator’s comment that “Charisma does not originate inside the person called ‘charismatic.’ It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist” (17). Do the novel and experience bear out the comment? How or how not?

Essay Topic 2

What is the novel’s overall impression of humanity? What in the text indicates as much, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

Which character is the second most important in the text? How does the work support such an assertion?

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