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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 main character's nationality?

2. What does Michel read on his last night in Biskra when he can't sleep?

3. In Part 1, Chapter 8, who collapses in front of Michel?

4. How does Michel feel about returning to his studies?

5. At the end of Part 1, Chapters 5-7, what does the reader learn that Michel's change in attitude and appearance demonstrate?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Michel and Charles spend their days?

2. Why does Michel suddenly take an interest in the operation of the family estate?

3. Why does Michel's interest in Charles fade?

4. Why does Michel decide he and his wife should moved to the family's country estate after accepting a temporary teaching job? Where is the estate?

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

6. Why does Michel marry Marceline?

7. Discuss Michel's pursuit of physical vitality.

8. What does the fact that Michel accepts a teaching job signify to the story?

9. How does Michel feel about his studies after returning from his honeymoon? Why does he feel this way?

10. What happens when Marceline asks Michel to pray for her?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the primary theme of The Immoralist? How does the author present this theme? How does the theme develop throughout the novel?

Essay Topic 2

What is the significance of Charles to the story? How might the novel have differed if he had not been introduced as a minor character?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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