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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. What does the main character's office door read in "The Passer-Through-Walls"?
(a) "Exit Only."
(b) "Private."
(c) "No Entry."
(d) "Storeroom."

2. In "Grand-Lebrun", what color are the tiles of the school floor?
(a) Red and white.
(b) Brown and black.
(c) Blue and white.
(d) Black and white.

3. What does the youngest son ask of the prodigal son?
(a) To talk him out of leaving.
(b) To keep the family from looking for him.
(c) To leave with him.
(d) To stay and comfort mother.

4. Why does the prodigal son wait until night to go to his father's home?
(a) He does not wait; he goes during the day.
(b) To cloak his poverty.
(c) To fall asleep on the steps and have the family find him in the morning.
(d) To listen in on the family's conversation.

5. What does the prodigal son's father accuse his son of doing when he asked him why he left?
(a) Not wanting to be a part of the family.
(b) Running away from working.
(c) Not loving his mother.
(d) Splitting hairs.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In "Grand-Lebrun", when does a child's heart become used to looking for God?

3. What has stopped Daru's students from coming to school in "The Guest"?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why did Judas have the right to transfer funds into his own personal account?

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

4. Why does Judas claim that all young people should come and gaze upon his dead body?

5. Why did Judas find himself above all other of Jesus' disciples?

6. Why did Daru have bags of wheat in the schoolhouse?

7. According to the editor, why is Francois Mauriac "one of the most sensitive witnesses of our threatened world?"

8. How does Dutilleul come to find out about his power?

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

10. Why did the prodigal son leave home?

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