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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Passer-Through-Walls by Marcel Ayme.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the editor in "The Poor Boy's Toy", what idea does the narrator want to convey?
(a) The wealth of the poor.
(b) Innocent diversion.
(c) The poorness of the wealthy.
(d) Loss.

2. How long is Micromegas' term of exile?
(a) 800 years.
(b) 800,000 years.
(c) 80 years.
(d) 8,000 years.

3. To what does the narrator compare Desplein?
(a) A clown.
(b) A horse.
(c) A farmer.
(d) An actor.

4. What planet is Micromegas from?
(a) Saturn.
(b) Sinus.
(c) Sirius.
(d) Sympheraous.

5. Who spoke the following quote about Mauriac: "God is not an artist, and neither is M. Mauriac"?
(a) Maupassant.
(b) Sartre.
(c) Ayme.
(d) Gide.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Baudelaire die?

2. Why is the minuet no longer performed?

3. In "The Rope," what did the boy's mother want to see at the storyteller's home?

4. Why does the prodigal son wait until night to go to his father's home?

5. In remembering his time at Grand-Lebrun, what season is it?

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