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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. In "The Passer-Through-Walls", what did the main character do for a living?
(a) A doctor.
(b) A warehouse supplier.
(c) A lawyer.
(d) A third-grade employee.

2. Who tells Judas "it is expedient for you that one man should die for the people"?
(a) Gideon.
(b) Lucius of Cyrene.
(c) Philip the Evangelist.
(d) Caiaphas.

3. What does the doctor find is the cause of the main character's special power in "The Passer-Through-Walls"?
(a) Hardening of the strangulatory wall of the thyroid vesicle.
(b) Aquagenic Urticaria.
(c) Hyperthymesic Syndrome.
(d) Chairi Malformation.

4. What has stopped Daru's students from coming to school in "The Guest"?
(a) Rain.
(b) Heat.
(c) Snow.
(d) Draught.

5. Who did Gide dedicate "The Return of the Prodigal Son" to?
(a) Arthur Fontaine.
(b) Francis James.
(c) Paul Claudel.
(d) Charles-Louis Philippe.

Short Answer Questions

1. What would Mauriac say in front of a mirror?

2. At the time of printing, where did Ayme reside?

3. What does the prodigal son say he can still taste, even after partaking of the calf at the feast?

4. To which direction do Daru's classroom windows open?

5. What does the youngest son ask of the prodigal son?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the sight in "The Guest" that Daru witnessed while he watched the two men come up the mountain to the schoolhouse.

2. Why was a fire only kept in the dining room and in the room of the narrator's mother in "Grand-Lebrun?"

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

4. Who was "caught" by Jesus, according to Judas?

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

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

7. Why does the prodigal son's older brother claim to be different from the prodigal son?

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

9. What did Dutilleul's coworkers do when they found out that he was the "Werewolf?"

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

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