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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 Michel's wife immediately do when she learns he is sick?

2. What is the diagnosis the doctor gives Michel?

3. What is the reason for Michel's feelings toward his studies?

4. In Part 1, Chapter 8, to which city does Michel choose to walk?

5. What does Michel study during his scholarly life?

Short Essay Questions

1. When is the novel written and what time period serves as the novel's setting?

2. Why does Michel marry Marceline?

3. Why does Michel walk to Positano?

4. What happens to Marceline's health after losing the baby?

5. Discuss Michel's life and interests following the death of his mother at age 15.

6. How does Marceline help in Michel's recovery from tuberculosis?

7. What is the importance of the alliteration and repetition used in Part 2, Chapter 1 when the author writes "Autumn is advancing?"

8. Michel doesn't really know Marceline when they marry. Why does he grow to love and respect his new wife on their honeymoon?

9. Discuss Michel's actions when he realizes a madman is driving Marceline's carriage.

10. How does Michel know Marceline's health has taken a turn for the worse and what does he do to help?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast Menalque and Marceline as foils in The Immoralist.

Essay Topic 2

Name and define the five types of conflict. Which conflict prevails in The Immoralist? Select a different type of conflict and explain how the story would have differed under that particular type of conflict.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss types of figurative language used by the author in The Immoralist.

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