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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was around to tell Pierre and Jacques what to expect from the lycee?
(a) The grandmother.
(b) No one.
(c) Jacques' mother.
(d) M. Bernard.

2. How did the grandmother kill the hen?
(a) She strangled it.
(b) She hit it on the head with a pan.
(c) With a sharp knife.
(d) She thew it in a pot of boiling water.

3. What did Jacques dread each day when he went home from the lycee?
(a) Death and the unknown.
(b) The silence in the house.
(c) His grandmother's beatings.
(d) Dinner.

4. What did Jacques have to write down to describe his mother's work?
(a) Domestic.
(b) Stay-at-home mom.
(c) Postal employee.
(d) Caterer.

5. What element of nature did Jacques truly appreciate?
(a) The rain.
(b) The snow.
(c) The wind.
(d) The sun.

6. What happened to Jacques at the cooperage?
(a) He fell into the fire.
(b) He was offered a full-time job.
(c) His finger was crushed.
(d) He was robbed.

7. What world did Jacques become most part of?
(a) The world of work.
(b) The world of the lycee.
(c) The world of the water
(d) The world of his neighborhood.

8. What was Josephin's relationship to Ernest?
(a) They were enemies.
(b) They were brothers.
(c) Ernest was Josephin's father.
(d) They were best friends.

9. What religious education did Jacques have to go through?
(a) Classes for his first communion.
(b) Classes for his baptism.
(c) Classes for Arabic.
(d) Sunday school.

10. What did Jacques have to give up to be friends with Georges?
(a) Saying dirty words.
(b) His love of reading.
(c) His sandwich at lunchtime.
(d) Eating meat.

11. What had changed since Henri and Lucie lived there?
(a) The house was bigger.
(b) Everything. All the original buildings were gone.
(c) Everything was even more dilapidated.
(d) Nothing.

12. How did Jacques feel when he got into the school of higher education?
(a) He felt like he deserved it.
(b) Happy, but bereft as his teacher left.
(c) It made him somewhat sad.
(d) He regretted his decision to try for it.

13. What happened when Jacques told his mother and grandmother that he had a chance at getting a higher education?
(a) They said he had to work.
(b) They hugged him.
(c) They took him out to dinner.
(d) They laughed at him.

14. What was the political situation like?
(a) It was a time of peace.
(b) It was a time of unrest, and it wasn't safe to live there.
(c) Things were about to blow apart into warfare.
(d) There were negotiations for peace.

15. What did Jacques help Michel with?
(a) The shopping.
(b) The horses.
(c) Dinner.
(d) Moving furniture.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Jacques one of the teacher's pets?

2. What book did the teacher read to the students?

3. What did the uncle and grandmother say Jacques had?

4. What did Jacques and Pierre take to get to school?

5. What did Jacques ask Veillard about?

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