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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. What does Bardamu think about doing to solve his disastrous business?
(a) Make up the books
(b) Fake his death
(c) Leave town
(d) Burn his clinic

2. In Section 14, who does Bardamu start seeing romantically?
(a) Lola
(b) Molly
(c) Madelon
(d) Musyne

3. What does Bardemu overhear on his way home from the party in Section 23?
(a) That Madelon and Robinson do not like him
(b) Robinson is planning another murder
(c) Robinson hates Madelon
(d) Madelon and Robinson are about to get married

4. What party do Robinson, Madelon and Bardemu attend in Section 23?
(a) The theater party
(b) The party in the park
(c) The political party
(d) The houseboat party

5. What is Lola's mother suffering from?
(a) Blindness
(b) Lung cancer
(c) Arthritis
(d) Liver cancer

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Bardamu seek to treat typhoid in Section 17?

2. What does Bardamu decide to do?

3. What does Abbot Protiste do for the Henrouille family?

4. What is the nature of the injury of the individual in the evening in Section 19?

5. What company does Bardamu find work at in the city he travels to after New York?

Short Essay Questions

1. What criticism does Bardamu offer for the scientific and medical communities?

2. Why is Bardamu suddenly disillusioned with the Tarapout Theater in Section 21?

3. What indiscretion does Bardamu practice in Toulouse?

4. What happens with Doctor Baryton?

5. Who does Bardamu go to for money in Section 13?

6. Why does Bardamu gain a bad reputation as a doctor?

7. Why is Bardamu despairing of Robinson and Madelon's lifestyle?

8. How does Robinson's plan backfire in Section 19?

9. What becomes obvious to Bardamu while attending the party on the houseboat?

10. What is sad about the case of the young girl in Section 16?

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