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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. According to the editor's biography of Mauriac, what does Mauriac consider himself the last of?
(a) Atheist writers in France.
(b) Catholic writers in France.
(c) Baptist writers in Prague.
(d) Methodist writers in Prague.

2. What is the prodigal son's mother afraid of?
(a) The prodigal son leaving again.
(b) The father leaving.
(c) The oldest son leaving.
(d) The youngest son leaving.

3. How many years was Judas in the service of Jesus?
(a) 3.
(b) 1.
(c) 6.
(d) 4.

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

5. What time was recess at Grand-Lebrun?
(a) 4:00.
(b) 2:00.
(c) 12:00.
(d) 7:00.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Balducci give Daru as he is leaving the schoolhouse?

2. What does Daru give the Arab in addition to food?

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

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

5. Who does Judas begin to visit when he decides he wants to know "the other side of things"?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Dutilleul in "The Passer-Through-Walls."

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

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

4. What does Daru do with the Arab at the end of the story?

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

6. Why did Daru feel like a lord given his meager lifestyle?

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

8. Why is the eldest son harsher than the father is regarding the prodigal son?

9. 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?

10. Why did Dutilleul "show" his power to pass through walls to his superior?

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