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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What job does Dr. Paraprine set up for Bardamu back in France?
(a) Baker's assistant
(b) Working in a psychiatric hospital
(c) Book stall employee
(d) Working in in a movie theatre

2. What ruins Bardamu's experience of the movie theater forever?
(a) Not getting paid fairly
(b) The saddest song that he has ever heard
(c) Meeting the clientele
(d) The happiest thing that he has ever heard

3. How does Bardamu seek to treat typhoid in Section 17?
(a) By using Epsom salts
(b) By keeping patients warm
(c) By vigorous washing
(d) By asking advice

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

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

6. What dreadful news does Bardemu hear just as he is leaving Toulouse?
(a) Grandma Henrouille has died
(b) Madelon has died
(c) Paraprine has died
(d) Robinson has died

7. What does Bardamu think Mr. Henrouille is actually suffering from?
(a) Jealousy
(b) Fear
(c) Pride
(d) Greed

8. What is wrong with Grandma Henrouille?
(a) Diabetes
(b) Cancer
(c) Nothing
(d) Insanity

9. Where is Bardamu later called that night after attending the carnival in Section 19 in order to attend another emergency?
(a) The houseboat on the Hudson
(b) The carnival
(c) The Henrouille residence
(d) Bebert's house

10. What does Dr. Paraprine advise Bardamu in Section 17?
(a) Make some money
(b) To change professions
(c) Just do his best
(d) Give up

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

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

13. In Section 14, what idea does Robinson have for Bardamu and himself?
(a) To return from France
(b) To travel to Britain
(c) To run away to the jungle
(d) To run a scam in Vegas

14. What does Dr. Paraprine say he has been doing for years?
(a) Breaking the frontiers of knowledge
(b) Making money
(c) Inventing cures
(d) Publishing the same article

15. Who has been injured there at the location Bardamu is called to in the evening in Section 19?
(a) Grandma Henrouille
(b) Paraprine
(c) Robinson
(d) Madelon

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Robinson angry at Grandma Henrouille in Section 23?

2. What does Bardamu decide to do?

3. How many mummified bodies are there in the crypt in Section 21?

4. When does Bardamu start hallucinating?

5. Where does Bardamu decide to visit in Section 21?

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