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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. How old is Margot?

2. What book does Monsieur Perdu refuse to sell a customer in Chapter 3?

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

4. How old was Perdu when his father first showed him how to drive a cargo boat?

5. In Chapter 9, what does Nadira del Pappas do?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Elaia has been dealing with cancer since she was a child. What is revealed about the struggle to live through Elaia and the name that she gives her cancer?

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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