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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 Balducci give Daru as he is leaving the schoolhouse?

2. What did Mauriac's teachers not consider him?

3. According to the editor, in what genre does Ayme fail to be successful?

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

5. According to the editor, what was Claudel always guided by?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

5. Why did the prodigal son leave home?

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

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

8. Why is the Arab being transported to another village in "The Guest?"

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine the story "The Poor Boy's Toy." What does each of the point-of-views in the story represent? What do you think that Baudelaire is trying to say? Is this story one of morality or social standing? What is the meaning behind Baudelaire's story?

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

In "The Return of the Prodigal Son," whom is the most important conversation with: the father, the older brother, the mother, or the younger brother? Why do you believe that this is the most important conversation in the story? Cite specific examples from the text to support your response.

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