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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. Where did Cincinnatus grow up?
(a) In an orphanage.
(b) Homeless on the streets.
(c) In a convent.
(d) In a foster home.
2. What does Cincinnatus credit his lawyer with?
(a) Making eloquent speeches that accomplish nothing.
(b) Avoiding doing anything at all at the trial.
(c) Making himself look good at Cincinnatus's expense.
(d) Saving him from a worse punishment than beheading.
3. Who enters the cell after Cincinnatus undresses at the end of his second day in prison, snapping Cincinnatus's world back to normal?
(a) The prison director.
(b) Marthe.
(c) The spider.
(d) Rodion.
4. What does Pierre tell Cincinnatus that they will do together?
(a) Walk out of the prison to freedom.
(b) Find a path to spiritual well-being.
(c) Walk up the execution scaffold.
(d) Take over the guard towers.
5. What does Cincinnatus have to eat when Emmie comes into his cell?
(a) Coffee and cereal.
(b) Hot chocolate and toast.
(c) Eggs and bacon.
(d) Sweet rolls and orange juice.
Short Answer Questions
1. What metaphor does Cincinnatus use for trying to find the essence of what he wants to say?
2. Where does the lawyer take Cincinnatus during their meeting?
3. What does Cincinnatus do when he undresses at the end of his second day in prison?
4. What happens when Marthe's grandfather goes to light Marthe's father's cigarette?
5. Who does Cincinnatus ask to turn off the lights before he goes to bed?
Short Essay Questions
1. What ring does Cincinnatus describe wearing in his memory from his childhood?
2. After telling his "joke," what does Pierre say about how Cincinnatus looks?
3. What happens after Cincinnatus goes to bed, the night after the prisoner arrives?
4. What types of dreams do the prison rules disallow?
5. Describe Cincinnatus's walk through the prison staircase.
6. In the story that Cincinnatus tells from his childhood, how does he get to the garden?
7. How do all the prison guards react to the new prisoner?
8. What does Emmie do with the books in Cincinnatus' cell?
9. What faults and virtues does Pierre say that the director has?
10. How does Emmie say goodbye to Cincinnatus?
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