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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. What are the Germans preparing to celebrate?

2. Which of the following is NOT used by Charlotte Pericand to describe her sons to her other crying children after she learns of their deaths?

3. What has happened to Lucile Angellier's husband?

4. In Chapter 27, why does Gabriel Corte shed a tear?

5. What is the name of the German officer who moves into the Angelliers' home?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the atmosphere of the town as the German's depart for Russia?

2. What does Lucile decide to do about Benoit as the Germans are leaving?

3. How does Madame Angellier feel about her daughter-in-law, Lucile?

4. How does Charlotte Pericand react when she sees Hubert and realizes that he is not dead?

5. Why are the Germans going to arrest Benoit and what happens when they arrive at the Sabarie house?

6. What happens to Charles Langelet in Chapter 29, and why is it ironic at this point?

7. How has the war affected Corbin and Count de Furieres differently?

8. What is the atmosphere on the farm where Jean-Marie Michaud is staying?

9. Why do the Germans have a party and what are the feelings of the French villagers about it?

10. Why does Madame Angellier make a visit to her farms? What is her opinion of the farmers?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Lucile Angellier and Bruno von Falk are young people falling in love under the worst circumstances imaginable. Lucile is a Frenchwoman, married to a French soldier prisoner of war, and Bruno is a German soldier, the enemy of the French. Describe the relationship between Lucile and Bruno. How is the relationship affected by the war? What are the difficulties and challenges they face after they realize that they are in love with one another? Why is a relationship between the two impossible and how does their friendship end?

Essay Topic 2

All of the different socio-economic classes in France at the time are represented through the different characters in the novel. Identify a character or family of characters that represent each different class, from servants to the working class to the middle class to the upper class. How does the war affect the people in the classes differently? Are the poor more susceptible to the negative attributes of war than the people in the middle and upper classes? How do people from the different classes view the war and the occupation?

Essay Topic 3

Throughout the novel, we see the development of the characters, and lack thereof, through their experiences and situations. Discuss how the war is the catalyst of change for the individual characters in the novel. How do the experiences of the characters and the situations in which the war finds them in bring out the true nature of the characters? Provide examples with the development of at least three characters.

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