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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sections 5-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the patients amuse themselves at the hospital?
(a) By attempting to be more patriotic than the others
(b) By making fun of the Normals
(c) By playing pool
(d) By attacking and playing jokes on the staff

2. What important 'kit' does Major Pincon own?
(a) The foodstores
(b) The map
(c) The armor
(d) The guns

3. Who is being celebrated in the public occasion Bardamu sees passing his window?
(a) New recruits for the army
(b) Farmers
(c) Politicians
(d) Returning war heroes

4. What does Bardamu call the condition that he and those he is jailed with have in Section 5?
(a) Cowardice
(b) Depression
(c) An impaired sense of patriotism
(d) Shell shock

5. What event is about to happen in world history, across Europe at the beginning of the book?
(a) The Korean War
(b) The Second World War
(c) The Black Death
(d) The First World War

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Bardamu receive his war medal?

2. What is the name of the teacher that Bardamu meets while incarcerated in Section 5?

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

4. Where will Bardamu not take shelter one day when under attack in Section 6?

5. Who is Bardamu's superior officer?

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