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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why was it difficult for Catherine to understand the films?
(a) The actor's vocabulary was too advanced for her.
(b) She was distracted by the children around her.
(c) She couldn't hear.
(d) She was illiterate.

2. What did Lucie think of the political situation when her husband went off to war?
(a) She understood why they needed to fight.
(b) She didn't know what was going on.
(c) She wanted to leave the country.
(d) She had been following the politically strategies closely and agreed that her husband he to go.

3. What game was Pierre good at?
(a) Poor man's basketball.
(b) Poor man's tennis.
(c) Soccer.
(d) Stickball.

4. What did Jacques realize about his grandmother?
(a) She loved him.
(b) She resented his presence in her life.
(c) She thought he was a nuisance.
(d) It was painful for her to be with him since he was so similar to his father.

5. What was the population like around their new home?
(a) It was a friendly neighborhood where families stayed outside in the evenings to talk.
(b) There weren't many people.
(c) There were a few people, but the people shunned them.
(d) It was a city.

6. How would Jacques learn more about his father?
(a) From his mother.
(b) He would have to research the man on his own.
(c) From his uncle.
(d) From his grandmother.

7. How did Henri feel about some of the actions he saw in the war?
(a) He was horrified and said no man would act like that.
(b) He was disgusted but not surprised.
(c) He thought the enemy deserved all they got.
(d) He accepted the actions as something soldiers must do.

8. According to Jacques' grandmother, what illness did Lucie have when she was young?
(a) Chicken pox.
(b) The flu.
(c) Typhoid.
(d) Pneumonia.

9. Why was the wife in pain as they traveled?
(a) She was in labor.
(b) She suffered from migraines.
(c) She had a bad back.
(d) She had a broken leg.

10. How did the man surprise the chambermaid at the hotel?
(a) He was irrational.
(b) He passed out in the hallway.
(c) He gave her a tip even though he wouldn't let her carry his bag.
(d) He gave her flowers.

11. How did Jacques feel about going back to Algiers?
(a) He was filled with happy anxiety.
(b) He dreaded it.
(c) He refused to ever go back.
(d) He embraced the idea of going back with gusto.

12. Who had the most influence in Jacques' childhood?
(a) His father.
(b) His mother.
(c) His brother.
(d) His grandmother.

13. How did Jacques' mother seem as she gazed out the window?
(a) Anxious.
(b) Happy.
(c) Content.
(d) Melancholy.

14. How long had Malan and Jacques been friends?
(a) 40 years.
(b) 10 years.
(c) 5 years.
(d) 20 years.

15. What did the boys fill their pockets with?
(a) Candy.
(b) Garbage.
(c) Fruit.
(d) Stones.

Short Answer Questions

1. What couldn't Jacques control?

2. What did Jacques like about Malan?

3. What does Malan laugh with Jacques about?

4. How did Jacques feel when the evening came?

5. What handicap did Lucie have?

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