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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Pierre criticize Cincinnatus' attitude as?
(a) Melodramatic.
(b) Constantly angry.
(c) Not serious enough.
(d) Selfish and contemptuous.

2. What does Cincinnatus do at night in his youth when he has his first job?
(a) He listens to music.
(b) He plays chess.
(c) He reads.
(d) He writes.

3. What does the prison director scold the prisoner for doing?
(a) Going out of his cell.
(b) Complaining about the conditions at the prison.
(c) Letting his dinner get cold.
(d) Looking out of the window.

4. What was unusual about Cincinnatus' sentence?
(a) The sentence was pronounced three times in repetion.
(b) The sentence was pronounced in a coded phrase.
(c) The sentences was pronounced in a foreign language.
(d) The sentence was pronounced backwards.

5. When did Cincinnatus first meet his mother?
(a) In his twenties.
(b) When he was five.
(c) In his thirties.
(d) In his teens.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cincinnatus describe as discovering, as he takes off layer after layer of his clothes/himself?

2. What color is the letter Cincinnatus receives when he wakes?

3. After Emmie leaves his cell, what does Cincinnatus start philosophizing about in his pile of books?

4. Who tells Cincinnatus that the new prisoner has arrived?

5. What does the director give to Pierre?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Cincinnatus do, when the director briefly leaves the meeting between Cincinnatus and Pierre?

2. After telling his "joke," what does Pierre say about how Cincinnatus looks?

3. What faults and virtues does Pierre say that the director has?

4. In the story that Cincinnatus tells from his childhood, how does he get to the garden?

5. What does Pierre say about himself?

6. What does Cincinnatus hope to get out of seeing Marthe?

7. How does Cincinnatus' father-in-law say goodbye to him?

8. Describe Cincinnatus's walk through the prison staircase.

9. At the end of his first day in prison, what does Cincinnatus think about?

10. What does Emmie do with the water jug in Cincinnatus' cell?

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