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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 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.

2. How did Tamzal feel about war?
(a) He thought war was a strange beast.
(b) He abhorred it.
(c) He felt it was more normal than peace.
(d) He thought is was something everyone should engage in.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What pastime did Ernest thoroughly enjoy?

2. What did Pierre and Jacques pass on the way to school?

3. What type of book mostly appealed to Jacques?

4. What did Jacques like in his library books?

5. Where did Pierre and Jacques spend some of their free time?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Jacques and Pierre feel about school in general?

2. Why did Jacques like M. Bernard so much?

3. Explain what the lycee is and why it was a privilege to go there.

4. Describe what happens when Jacques needs a permission slip signed.

5. Why did the French come to Algeria, and what did they find?

6. Describe how Lucie reacts to the task and how it makes Jacques feel.

7. What did Jacques feel about Ernest?

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

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

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

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