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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did he like his small town?
(a) He hated city pollution.
(b) It didn't distract him from his solitary meditation.
(c) He liked knowing his neighbors.
(d) He felt secure.

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

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

4. Why does Jacques say he's different around Malan?
(a) Malan commands respect.
(b) He loves Malan.
(c) Malan has a way of making him feel smarter.
(d) Malan has a way of making him feel stupid.

5. What does Malan laugh with Jacques about?
(a) He teases Jacques about his crush on the woman at the train station.
(b) He teases Jacques about the food they are eating.
(c) He tells Jacques to get a job in the same school he works in.
(d) He tells Jacques to go to his mom to find out more about his dad.

6. What handicap did Lucie have?
(a) She couldn't speak.
(b) She couldn't hear.
(c) She was blind.
(d) She was lame.

7. What did Malan look like?
(a) An Arab.
(b) The stereotypical Frenchman.
(c) A troubadour.
(d) A Chinese man.

8. How did Jacques feel when the evening came?
(a) He wasn't ready to leave the grave.
(b) He knew that he would be back as soon as possible.
(c) He wanted to get as far away as possible.
(d) He knew in his heart that he had to bring his mother there.

9. Where did he and his friends stop on the way to the field?
(a) The waterspout.
(b) The candy store.
(c) The market.
(d) The post office.

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

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

12. How were Jacques and his father similar?
(a) They were both soldiers.
(b) They both loved art.
(c) Jacques looked like his father.
(d) They both were farmers.

13. What did the children do in their meeting place?
(a) They talked about their future.
(b) They shared candy and made forts.
(c) They made plans for mischief.
(d) They created gaming strategies.

14. Whose grave was the traveler looking for?
(a) The Arab.
(b) Henri Cormery.
(c) Jacques Cormery.
(d) Lucie Cormery.

15. Who was standing in the corridor of the Saint-Brieuc train 40 years after Henri and Lucie had their child?
(a) A priest.
(b) A soldier.
(c) The Arab.
(d) A man.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did the Arab go to find?

2. How did Jacques feel about Paris?

3. How did the wife respond to her pain.

4. What part of the cemetery did the traveler specifically go to?

5. What disability did Jacques's uncle have?

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