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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 the prodigal son's father tell the servants to get for the prodigal son?

2. How did Mauriac live as a child?

3. What was the basis of the poem that admitted Judas to the Sanhedrin?

4. What is the prodigal son's mother afraid of?

5. In "The Guest", how many men is the schoolteacher waiting on to climb the hill to the school house?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does the demolition of the garden affect Jean Bridelle in "The Minuet?" Although not given textually, what does the destruction of the garden represent for the older couple? How do their feelings differ? How are their feelings similar?

Essay Topic 2

Micromegas leaves the inhabitants of Earth with a book that will "answer" all of their questions. What is the relevance of the "gift" that Micromegas leaves? What does its "state" mean for the humans? For Micromegas?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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