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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 do Madame Bernard and Madame Rosalette want Monsieur Perdu to give in Chapter 1?

2. In Chapter 3, how long has Max Jordan been living at 27 Rue Montagnard?

3. What color are Catherine's eyes?

4. In Chapter 2, what day did Madame Catherine Le P find a suitcase on the stairs with divorce papers?

5. In Chapter 18, what nationality is the person who yells at Perdu when the barge is jammed across the river?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Catherine tell Perdu in a note in Chapter 9?

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

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

5. How do Perdu and Max get dinner in Chapter 19?

6. What is the flag like that Max finds in Chapter 16?

7. What can Perdu smell in Chapter 1 when he opens a casement window?

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

9. How does Perdu get his boat ready to sail?

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

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?

Essay Topic 2

Perdu and Catherine are drawn together when they first meet. What draws the two of them together and how does grief play a factor in bringing them together?

Essay Topic 3

Perdu’s physical journeys in the novel lead to emotional healing. How does Perdu find healing from the grief he has had for more than 20 years through his travels?

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