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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who makes the decision to go back to Japan for the fourth trip?
2. Why does Baldabiou NOT want to send Joncour back to Japan for a fourth trip?
3. When the boy appears in the village of Hara Kei on the fourth trip, what does he give to Joncour?
4. What does Joncour do with the envelope he receives after his last trip to Japan?
5. Which way do Joncour and the boy travel after the boy finds Joncour at the village of Hara Kei on the fourth trip?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Joncour take Baldabiou to the house of Jean Berbeck that he buys? What is he looking for? Why does he think that Baldabiou will understand?
2. On his final trip to Madame Blanche's, what does she tell Joncour about his wife that he did not know?
3. Helene runs after Baldabiou at the train station and they embrace and she cries. What does this tell the reader about their relationship? Do you think something happened?
4. On the fourth trip to Japan, when Joncour offers gold to Hara Kei, what is he buying?
5. Why does the author describe the train trip so vividly returning from Japan on the fourth trip? What is the significance of the heat that Joncour sees on the fields and with the other passengers? What is he watching happening?
6. What does Joncour hear as Hara Kei hold the gun to his head? Describe the sounds of what is happening around him.
7. Why does Helene pretend not to notice the letters when they are clearly in plain sight?
8. What happens the morning after Hara Kei's party? Why do you think Hara Kei left? How does Joncour find the aviary? What is this saying to Joncour?
9. When Joncour arrives home nine days late, what does he ask of his wife? Why does he ask her this?
10. When Joncour finally tells Baldabiou about the girl in Japan he says, "To die of nostalgia for something you will never live," what does he mean?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Joncour is a hero to his town, giving nearly all the town a way to make a living, and yet, he blindly pursues the mistress, knowing full well that he could lose everything for his town. Why does Joncour, in chapter after chapter, move toward his own destruction with little or no reservation to the damage he will do to his town or his wife? How can this man be so blind?
Essay Topic 2
Japan is described twice in the novel as "the end of the world." Who describes it that way, and when? Are the two incidents connected in any way?
Essay Topic 3
How, in the end, does Joncour live in peace? How does he find peace? When he discovers that Helene wrote the letters, what does he feel that he lost? Does this discovery take away his peace? How?
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