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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How old is Jean Bridelle?

3. What is wrong with the "gift" that Micromegas gives to the humans?

4. Where was "Minuet" first published?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did people dislike Desplein?

2. What was Desplein's first selfless act that Horace witnessed?

3. How does Jean Bridelle describe the nursery?

4. What do the men on the ship tell Micromegas and the Saturnian their time is spent doing?

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

6. What does the garden mean for the old couple in "Minuet?"

7. Why is Horace surprised that Desplein attended a mass?

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

9. Why was Micromegas condemned?

10. How did the curse of the stag come to be true in "The Legend of St. Julian Hospitaler?"

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the meaning behind Dutilleul's use of a "Werewolf" as his sign. Normally, what does the werewolf symbolize as an image? What does the werewolf symbolize for Dutilleul? How do these understandings collaborate or contradict with one another? Why?

Essay Topic 2

In "The Guest," what is the importance of Daru's isolation? How does his love of isolation speak to the meaning behind the story? How is the theme of isolation shown in a physical way? In a symbolic way? Is Daru's love of isolation the reason that he helps the Arab to escape? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Choose three of the stories using the obstacles that the main character faces. What are the obstacles? What are the choices the main character has? What does the main character choose to do? Is the decision moral/just or not?

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