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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did the women laugh when the doctor arrived?
(a) The baby was already born.
(b) They thought he was a fool.
(c) He looked like a drowned rat.
(d) He was joking with them.

2. Why was Lucie afraid?
(a) She was worried that she wouldn't have money to survive.
(b) Two bombs had exploded in her area that week.
(c) She had nightmares about her husband's death when she slept.
(d) She didn't want to die.

3. How did Lucie and her husband travel on the last stage of their trip to their new home?
(a) Wagon
(b) Train
(c) Boat
(d) Car

4. How did Jacques feel about being on a boat?
(a) He thought it was fine, but preferred trains.
(b) He loved the sound and feel of being on a boat.
(c) He worried about drowning.
(d) He always got sea sick.

5. Where did Jacques' mother live?
(a) In a little cottage.
(b) In the house where he grew up.
(c) In the nursing home.
(d) Right near the beach.

6. Why did Malan ask for forgiveness?
(a) He doesn't understand what Jacques is going through.
(b) Sometimes he doesn't know how to respond to caring.
(c) He is a bitter man.
(d) Sometimes he cares too much.

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

8. What was Jacques' job at the theater?
(a) He ran and got the snacks for his family.
(b) He read the captions to his grandmother.
(c) He helped seat everyone.
(d) He was in charge of telling the family when the film was about to begin.

9. Why did Jacques go to visit his father?
(a) He wanted to tell his dad how he felt.
(b) His mother had asked him to.
(c) He wanted to find out more about the man.
(d) He wanted to make peace with his father.

10. What message did he give Jacques?
(a) We never really know people even when we think we know them.
(b) There is no relationship better than that between a father and son.
(c) Education is more important than anything on Earth.
(d) Stay away from marriage.

11. How did they split the fries?
(a) They didn't share, and the ones without money had to watch the other boys eat.
(b) They each got an even share.
(c) Each boy got one fry, and the one who bought them got the rest.
(d) They boy who bought got half, and the rest was split evenly.

12. What did Lucie think about movies?
(a) She appreciated her escape from reality.
(b) She felt that the theater was too crowded.
(c) The theater wasn't a treat for her.
(d) She wanted to be a movie star.

13. What does Jacques think about Henri's early death?
(a) He thinks he was spared suffering.
(b) He is sad when thinking about the joys in life that Henri missed.
(c) He thinks it's tragic.
(d) He thinks that's what one deserves when he goes off to war.

14. What aura did the man emanate?
(a) One of menace.
(b) One of intrigue.
(c) One of insecurity.
(d) One of competence and vigor.

15. What does Jacques tell Malan he's willing to give him?
(a) Money for a train ride.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Everything he has.
(d) Rent money.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the mattress in the new house like?

2. How did the man surprise the chambermaid at the hotel?

3. What did Lucie think of the political situation when her husband went off to war?

4. How did Jacques' discovery about his father change his feelings toward him?

5. Who had the most influence in Jacques' childhood?

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