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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 17, who does the policeman tell Perdu to follow to find a place to moor without charge?

2. In Chapter 1, what was the name of the cat that used to sleep on a sofa in the room that Monsieur Perdu kept closed for a long time?

3. In Chapter 19, when Max asks if they can join some women for dinner, what are the women cooking?

4. In Chapter 20, what is the color of Lindgren's fur?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Where is the table that Perdu decides to give away in Chapter 1, and how does he have to get into the room?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Why did Manon say that she was going to marry Luc and still be Perdu's lover?

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

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 lives a solitary life because of fear. Why does Perdu have so much fear and how does fear affect him and the way that he lives his life for 20 years?

Essay Topic 3

As Perdu contemplated Max and the book he wrote, Perdu wondered how it was possible to feel so intensely and still survive. Why is it difficult for Perdu to understand how someone can go on after suffering heartbreak?

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