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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What year did the husband and wife move from Algiers?

2. What was the sea like?

3. How did the man react to those traveling near him?

4. What does Jacques tell Malan he's willing to give him?

5. How would Jacques learn more about his father?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Henri show his love for Lucie?

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

3. What were Jacques' friends like?

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

5. What kind of games did Jacques and his friends play?

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

7. What was making Lucie anxious when he visited her?

8. Why did Henri and Lucie leave Algiers?

9. What did the way Jacques demonstrate about his personality?

10. What did Jacques realize about his father's age, and how did he react to this knowledge?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe what Jacques discovered when he went back to the town of his birth. What was the political situation? What did he learn about his father? How did the visit change him?

Essay Topic 2

When Lucie and Henri moved, they had to deal with many different changes. Explain what they had to face culturally, physically, mentally, and socially.

Essay Topic 3

Explain what happened when Jacques has a coin. What does he do with it? What does he tell his grandmother about it? How does she react, and what does he learn from the experience.

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