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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. Who is the main character?
(a) Lola
(b) Leon Robinson
(c) Ferdinand Bardamu
(d) Doctor Paraprine

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

3. How does Bardamu almost become a celebrity in Section 6?
(a) His striking good looks
(b) His exploits are in the news
(c) He dates a famous actress
(d) His fake war stories are used in a play

4. What is the only thing that Bardamu wishes for in Section 9?
(a) To go back to Paris
(b) To get out of the jungle
(c) To go back to the war
(d) To go back to the hospital

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bardamu think he is going to find in America?

2. Where does Bardamu decide to travel to in Section 8?

3. Where does Bardamu decide to go?

4. As stated in Section 3, how is Robinson similar to Bardamu?

5. Whom does Bardamu meet outside while investigating a town in Section 3?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Bardamu look down on the nurses?

2. Why does Bardamu join the army in Section 1?

3. In what way does Bardamu realize he has been swindled in Section 11?

4. What does Bardamu find so calculating and ruthless about the Director?

5. Who is Musyne, and why does her relationship with Bardamu fail to work?

6. Who saves Bardamu from the jungle?

7. What does Bardamu think is the interesting quality of the Manhattan Banks?

8. What does Bardamu think about the Germans during the First World War?

9. What does Bardamu realize about his new life in Africa, this new continent and the people he associates with?

10. What is strange about the military outpost under Lt. Grappa's command?

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