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

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

3. In "The Passer-Through-Walls", what does the main character collect?
(a) Stamps.
(b) Coins.
(c) Silver.
(d) Lamps.

4. What does Daru keep in the school house to distribute to the schoolchildren?
(a) Eggs.
(b) Barley.
(c) Oats.
(d) Wheat.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the servant who woke Mauriac?

2. What does the main character's office door read in "The Passer-Through-Walls"?

3. What animal's hormones does the doctor prescribe the main character in "The Passer-Through-Walls"?

4. What is the first facial feature that Daru notices about the Arab?

5. Who surrounded Mauriac during his childhood, like angels surrounded Jesus in the desert?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the prodigal son answer his father about his reasons for returning home?

2. In "Grand-Lebrun," why does the narrator choose to recall his time at his former school?

3. Why does Daru believe that Balducci is playing a joke on him when he tells Daru of the order for Daru to transport the Arab?

4. What happened to Dutilleul's superior because of the scare that Dutilleul gave him?

5. Why did the narrator live in a "poetic trance" while at Grand-Lebrun?

6. What were the circumstances surrounding Dutilleul's first burglary?

7. Why does Judas claim that readers should not be against the Pharisees?

8. Why did the prodigal son leave home?

9. What does the prodigal son's father do when the prodigal son returns home?

10. According to Judas, how is a paralytic described after he has been cured?

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