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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 did the Cormerys do on vacation?
(a) They went to the mountains.
(b) They worked on their house.
(c) They took trips to the beach.
(d) They didn't get vacations.

2. How did Jacques feel about the light?
(a) It made his heart grow lighter.
(b) It was a waste of money.
(c) It glared harshly on their poverty.
(d) He felt it disguised the true darkness around him.

3. How did the grandmother embarrass Jacques during the awards ceremony?
(a) She talked to the people next to her.
(b) She was obviously illiterate.
(c) She kept crying.
(d) She was dressed wrong.

4. Who tried to protect the chickens from thieves?
(a) The barber.
(b) Jacques.
(c) The grandmother.
(d) The Arab next door.

5. What made the mother and grandmother proud?
(a) Jacques won an award.
(b) They had a strong background.
(c) They met some very important people and got along with them.
(d) They had the nicest clothes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of book mostly appealed to Jacques?

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

3. What did the farmer do?

4. What was Josephin's relationship to Ernest?

5. What did Jacques have to write down to describe his mother's work?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the grandmother's response to his task, and how Jacques feels about it.

2. How does Jacques feel about his summer work?

3. Why didn't Jacques' mother and grandmother want him to go to the lycee?

4. How does Jacques feel about his classmates?

5. How did M. Bernard feel about the children of war victims?

6. Why does Jacques go to Jacques, and what does he find?

7. Why is Jacques sent out to get a hen?

8. What does Jacques realize about his father?

9. How did Ernest feel about his mother?

10. What was Ernest's relationship like with his sister?

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