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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Bardamu visit Robinson and Grandma Henrouille in Section 21?
(a) Calais
(b) Bordeaux
(c) Toulouse
(d) Remy

2. How do the researchers in Section 17 treat their microbes, test tubes and laboratories?
(a) Like a curse
(b) Like a bank
(c) Like a prison
(d) Like a church

3. What ailment is the elderly man suffering that Bardamu visits in Section 18?
(a) A broken bone
(b) Tinnitus
(c) Arthritis
(d) Cancer

4. Who does Bardamu go to see in Section 17?
(a) Paraprine
(b) Princhard
(c) Robinson
(d) Alcide

5. Who is throwing the party in Section 23?
(a) A famous musician
(b) An elderly scientist
(c) A young butcher
(d) A young artist

6. What is Robinson planning to do?
(a) Kill Henrouille for money
(b) Get an honest job
(c) Become an actor
(d) Return to the war

7. How much money does Grandma Henrouille earn from her job?
(a) 1 franc each day
(b) 1,000 francs
(c) 100 francs a day
(d) 10 francs a day

8. Where does Bardamu next work?
(a) At a museum
(b) On a houseboat
(c) At a movie theater
(d) In a hospital

9. What is the nature of the injury of the individual in the evening in Section 19?
(a) A missing limb
(b) Blood loss
(c) Blindness
(d) Headaches

10. What does Bardemu suspect about the dreadful news he hears just as he is leaving Toulouse?
(a) That it was bound to happen sooner or later
(b) That Madelon killed her
(c) That Robinson killed her
(d) That it was an accident

11. What happens after Bardamu proposes marriage in someone in Section 13?
(a) There is a party
(b) He gets thrown out of the cafe
(c) He is beaten up
(d) It is accepted

12. Where does Bardamu decide to visit in Section 21?
(a) His old practice
(b) Where he was born
(c) His father's house
(d) His hometown

13. Why does Bardamu visit Lola in Section 13?
(a) To become friends
(b) To say sorry
(c) To reignite their romance
(d) To ask for some money

14. In what way in Section 18 does Bardamu think Robinson is being honest?
(a) He hates Grandma Henrouille
(b) He never lies about himself
(c) He is striving to be a moral character and do whatever it takes to do so
(d) He has given up trying to appease her or be moral to society

15. What dangerous feature does Bardamu immediately notice about the crypt?
(a) Steep rickety stairs
(b) Low ceiling
(c) Sharp candlesticks
(d) Rusted iron pipes

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Bardamu start hallucinating?

2. Why does her family want Grandma Henrouille committed to an asylum?

3. What is the name of the suburb Bardamu lives in when he returns to France?

4. In Section 20, who also has been recently fired, that Bardamu bumps into?

5. What is Sunday reserved for, in Bardamu's view?

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