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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 following line by Rimbaud mean: mais vous j'ai trop pleure, les aubes sont navrantes?

2. According to the editor, Ayme is the most inventive in what type of French writing?

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

4. What does the doctor find is the cause of the main character's special power in "The Passer-Through-Walls"?

5. In "The Return of the Prodigal Son", how does Gide describe his literary work?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What is the prodigal son planning on saying to his father to get his father to accept him back?

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

In "The Atheist's Mass," what is the irony behind Desplein's visits to church? What do his visits say about him as a man? Do you consider Desplein a true atheist? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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