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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 is the profession of the person described in "The Rope"?

2. How long is Micromegas' term of exile?

3. What does Desplein answer when his student questions his belief and actions?

4. To whom does the narrator in " The Old Clown" compare the muscle men to?

5. How is Jean Bridelle looked upon by others?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In "The Old Clown," why were people "sprawled everywhere?"

3. How does Jean Bridelle describe the nursery?

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

5. Why was Micromegas impressed by the secretary of the Academy of Saturn?

6. Explain the prophecy and circumstances that Julian's mother heard of his future in "The Legend of St. Julian Hospitaler."

7. Why did people dislike Desplein?

8. In "The Rope," why did the mother of the boy who committed suicide come to the narrator's home?

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

10. Why is Micromegas and the Saturnian surprised by the men on the ship?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What does the garden represent for Jean Bridelle in "The Minuet?" What does the garden represent for the old couple in the story? How are their feelings for the garden similar? How are they different?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Dutilleul's, from "The Passer-Through-Walls," powers. What does he choose to do with his powers? What do his choices say about him as a person? What are the results of the choices he makes? What is the impact that his choices have on others?

Essay Topic 3

Micromegas is banned from his planet for writing a heretical book. He goes on a journey that allows him to ask a very important question to the inhabitants of Earth. Why is the question so important to Micromegas? What point is he making by asking it? What is the relevance of his journey and the question?

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