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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. In Chapter 2, what type of jigsaw puzzle is Monsieur Perdu doing?

2. In Chapter 19, how many years does Ida say that she was married?

3. What year was Max born?

4. In Chapter 3, what was the name of Monsieur Perdu's barge before it became the "Literary Apothecary"?

5. In Chapter 18, where do Perdu and Max approach to find a lot of boats?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 2, what book does Perdu give a customer and how does he tell her to read it?

2. In Chapter 18, what does Max say about his father and what his father said when Max offered to supplement his father's income?

3. In Chapter 11, what does Catherine say about life with her ex-husband?

4. In Chapter 20 when Perdu borrows Ida's bicycle, what does he leave on the handlebars of the bike?

5. In Chapter 15, where does Perdu think about mooring for the evening and why?

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

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

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

9. In Chapter 10, how does Perdu feel when he is at Catherine's flat?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Books have been protection for Perdu. How have books created a force field in his life and how has that force field affected the way that Perdu lives?

Essay Topic 2

Perdu, Max, and Cuneo all experience loss. What have the men lost and how do those losses shape them and make them the men they become?

Essay Topic 3

Perdu considers a poem by Hesse and what it says about saying farewell. What does Perdu decide that he needs to say farewell to and how does the Hesse poem help him say good-bye to baggage in his life?

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