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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 do Madame Bernard and Madame Rosalette want Monsieur Perdu to give in Chapter 1?
(a) Chair.
(b) Table.
(c) Desk.
(d) Book.

2. In Chapter 5, what day of the week does the therapist Eric Lanson spend the afternoon at the "Literary Apothecary"?
(a) Wednesday.
(b) Friday.
(c) Thursday.
(d) Saturday.

3. Since his parents' divorce, what day of the week does Perdu always visit his mother?
(a) Saturday.
(b) Friday.
(c) Sunday.
(d) Wednesday.

4. What color are Catherine's eyes?
(a) Gray.
(b) Brown.
(c) Blue.
(d) Green.

5. How old is Margot?
(a) 78.
(b) 84.
(c) 91.
(d) 63.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is on the flag that Manon made?

2. In Chapter 9, what does Perdu bring his father?

3. What does Perdu tell Max to do when a policeman stops the boat in Chapter 17?

4. How many push-ups does Perdu do at the beginning of Chapter 13?

5. In Chapter 7, what color is the awning of Joshua Goldenberg's grocery store?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Perdu learn to drive a cargo boat?

2. In Chapter 4, why does Perdu say that he named his barge the "Literary Apothecary"?

3. In Chapter 8, what did Perdu get rid of and what did he keep after Manon was gone?

4. At the beginning of Chapter 9, what does Perdu do for hours and how does he feel afterward?

5. In Chapter 18, how does Perdu remember that Vijaya found his future wife?

6. In Chapter 18, what issues does Brigadier Levec find with Perdu's boat?

7. What did Paris seem like to Perdu when his parents took him to see relatives in Brittany?

8. In Chapter 6, who does Perdu say should read Jose Saramago's Blindness?

9. In Chapter 5, how does Perdu say that he knows what books are suitable for people?

10. How did Madame Catherine Le P find out that her husband had left her?

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