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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the sea like?
(a) Treacherous and cold.
(b) Treacherous yet warm.
(c) Gentle and warm.
(d) Gentle yet cold.

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

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

4. How did Jacques' discovery about his father change his feelings toward him?
(a) He felt compassion for the man instead of ambivalence.
(b) He suddenly regretted that he never really knew his father.
(c) His hero-worship turned to disdain.
(d) It helped him understand the man more.

5. What year did Lucie say she was born?
(a) 1892.
(b) 1885.
(c) She didn't know when she was born.
(d) 1902.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Jacques like with his mother?

2. How did they split the fries?

3. What did Jacques like about Malan?

4. Whose grave was the traveler looking for?

5. Where did he and his friends stop on the way to the field?

Short Essay Questions

1. What memory of his father did Jacques receive from his grandmother?

2. What were Jacques' friends like?

3. What parenting experience did Henri and Lucie have?

4. What was the journey like on the way to the new house?

5. Describe what happened as dusk fell at the graveyard.

6. Lucie lived in the same place where Jacques grew up. What was still the same about it, and what was different?

7. What did Jacques lie to his grandmother about, and what did he learn from the experience?

8. How did the caretaker help Jacques?

9. What did Jacques remember about going to the theater with the family?

10. What kind of town did Victor Malan live in?

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