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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. How tall is Micromegas?
(a) 12 feet tall.
(b) 1,200 feet tall.
(c) 120,000 feet tall.
(d) 120 feet tall.

2. What job does Julian take after leaving his wife?
(a) A fishing net mender.
(b) A job ferrying people across a lake.
(c) A job helping homeless men.
(d) A fisherman.

3. Where was "Minuet" first published?
(a) L'Infini.
(b) Journal des débats.
(c) Almanach des Muses.
(d) Le Gaulois.

4. What is the prophecy that Julian's father hears about his son's future?
(a) He will be a great ruler and conqueror.
(b) He will become a petty thief.
(c) He will kill the King and marry the Queen.
(d) He will kill him to take control of the estate.

5. What does "une maniere de sentir" mean?
(a) A century of madness.
(b) A moment of setiment.
(c) A way of feeling.
(d) A manner of sadness.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the narrator in "The Poor Boy's Toy", what have children learned to do?

2. What nationality was Voltaire?

3. What does Micromegas decide to do with his time of exile?

4. Who pays for the masses that Desplein attends?

5. What happens when Julian is practicing the javelin?

Short Essay Questions

1. In "The Mass of the Atheist," why was the famous French surgeon Desplein's death upsetting, even for his enemies?

2. Why is Micromegas and the Saturnian surprised by the men on the ship?

3. What was Julian taught when he was seven-years-old?

4. Why did the narrator shun the boy in "The Rope?"

5. Why is Micromegas' name appropriate?

6. What would Jean Bridelle do in the garden almost every morning?

7. Why was Micromegas condemned?

8. In "The Rope," why did the mother of the boy who committed suicide come to the narrator's home?

9. According to Jean Bridelle, in "Minuet," what is the most violent grief a man and mother can bear?

10. How does Jean Bridelle describe the nursery?

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