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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sections 15-16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bardamu think the Manhattan Banks are similar to?
(a) Military hospitals
(b) The jungles
(c) Cathedrals
(d) Prisons

2. According to Bardamu, why do the whites work so hard in the colonies?
(a) They will be beaten otherwise
(b) Life is so hard
(c) They are hard-working citizens
(d) They have fantasies about becoming rich

3. What type of suburb is it that Bardamu lives in upon returning to France?
(a) Working class
(b) A slum
(c) Wealthy
(d) Middle class

4. What is illusory about the soldiers under Grappa and Alcide's command?
(a) There is no barracks for them to quarter in
(b) They have enemies but pretend they do not
(c) They have no equipment but pretend they still do
(d) There are no soldiers

5. How does Bardamu escape his problems in Section 10?
(a) He becomes one of Alcide's people
(b) He flees into the jungle
(c) He pretends he is ill
(d) He works hard at their solutions

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Bardamu's superior in Section 9, the Director, make his money?

2. Whose house do Robinson and Bardamu visit in the village of Noirceur?

3. What new skill has Bardamu developed in Section 11, following his illness?

4. What instrument does Musyne play?

5. Why is Bardamu's and Musyne's relationship complicated and difficult?

(see the answer key)

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