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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Daru give the Arab in addition to food?
(a) Drugs.
(b) Clothes.
(c) Medicine.
(d) Money.

2. What would Mauriac say in front of a mirror?
(a) "No fear, no fear!"
(b) "Forgive me."
(c) "It's me! It's me!"
(d) "Never again...ever, ever again."

3. How does the prodigal son think that his father will react to his return?
(a) He will welcome him into the home.
(b) He will forget both of his other sons and give the remaining money to the prodigal son.
(c) He will turn him away.
(d) He will punish him harshly.

4. What did Mauriac's teachers not consider him?
(a) A waste of time.
(b) A bright student.
(c) A chosen vessel.
(d) A fast learner.

5. What did Mauriac sometimes consider himself?
(a) A dark cloud.
(b) A light in the darkness.
(c) A weak creature.
(d) A simpleton.

6. In what year did Camus receive the Nobel Peace Prize?
(a) 1862.
(b) 1957.
(c) 1965.
(d) 1900.

7. What is the first thing the prodigal son's father does when he sees his son?
(a) Frowns.
(b) Cries.
(c) Turns away from him.
(d) Opens his arms.

8. Who does Judas begin to visit when he decides he wants to know "the other side of things"?
(a) Soothsayers.
(b) Pharisees.
(c) Oracles.
(d) Holists.

9. According to the editor, Ayme is the most inventive in what type of French writing?
(a) Cuillers.
(b) Conteurs.
(c) Menteurs.
(d) Chanteur.

10. In "The Return of the Prodigal Son", what does the prodigal son say shut him in?
(a) The House.
(b) His mother.
(c) His father.
(d) His older brother.

11. Why does Judas say he did what he did to Jesus?
(a) He wanted the silver.
(b) He wanted to gain a higher position with the Romans.
(c) He was tired of Jesus looking over him.
(d) He wanted to see what "He" was up to.

12. What does the prodigal son first say made him come back?
(a) Thirst.
(b) Hunger.
(c) Laziness.
(d) Sickness.

13. What is a paralytic who has been put back on his feet compared to in "The Death of Judas"?
(a) A hibernating bear.
(b) A raging lion.
(c) A sleeping lamb.
(d) A jellyfish.

14. Who designed the statue of Jupiter in "The Death of Judas"?
(a) Michelangelo.
(b) Etruscan.
(c) Polyclitus.
(d) Raphael.

15. Why does the eldest son say he is different from the prodigal son?
(a) The oldest son has no honor.
(b) The oldest son has pride.
(c) The oldest son only wishes he could leave.
(d) The oldest son lives by order.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the basis of the poem that admitted Judas to the Sanhedrin?

2. After 1948, to what writing genre did Ayme devote most of his talent toward?

3. What illness did Albert Camus have while at university?

4. What kind of tea does Daru offer the men who have come to the schoolhouse?

5. What is happening to Judas during "Mort de Judas"?

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