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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Jacques define his religious preferences?
(a) He was a non-practicing Catholic.
(b) He was an atheist.
(c) He was a strict Catholic.
(d) He was an agnostic.

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

3. How did Jacques feel when he got the hen?
(a) Triumphant.
(b) Content.
(c) Sad.
(d) He was sick with disgust and fear.

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

5. What happened after the fight between Ernest and Josephin?
(a) Josephin stopped eating at the house.
(b) They both began to cry and made up.
(c) Ernest had to go to the hospital.
(d) Josephin had to go to the hospital.

6. What separated the two worlds in Jacques?
(a) Transportation limitations.
(b) The cultures.
(c) Memories.
(d) The Mediterranean.

7. When did Jacques have time to do what he wanted?
(a) Saturdays and Sundays.
(b) Thursday and Sunday afternoons.
(c) Saturdays.
(d) Never.

8. What did Jacques learn about his father from Veillard?
(a) He learned that his father was a strictly religious man.
(b) Nothing. The man knew nothing about the Henri.
(c) He learned that his father had a great sense of humor.
(d) He learned that his father was a hard worker.

9. Who else understands their instinctive bond to the area?
(a) The missionaries.
(b) The French.
(c) The Arabs.
(d) Nobody else.

10. What did the grandmother think of Lucie's haircut?
(a) She told Lucie she looked like a whore.
(b) She wanted to get her own hair cut like that, too.
(c) She didn't like it but accepted it.
(d) She loved it, but thought it was too modern for her taste.

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

12. What did Pierre and Jacques treat themselves with when they had extra money?
(a) Nothing. They saved all the money they could get.
(b) A newspaper.
(c) A plain fritter.
(d) A new book.

13. How did Jacques feel about making money for his family?
(a) He was happy to do it.
(b) He took great pride in it.
(c) He resented the fact that he had to do it.
(d) He felt it was his obligation.

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

15. What gift did the teacher give the older Jacques?
(a) A handkerchief.
(b) The book he had read in class.
(c) Some money.
(d) The ruler he used to smack the children with.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of relationship did students have with teachers at the lycee?

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

3. How did feel about getting a hen from the yard?

4. What type of book mostly appealed to Jacques?

5. What did Jacques dread each day when he went home from the lycee?

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