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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why couldn't Martin and his wife conceive a baby?
(a) Bertrande was too young.
(b) Martin was impotent.
(c) Bertrande had fertility problems.
(d) Martin had fertility problems.

2. Why did Bertrande and the impostor stay at the inn instead of going home right away?
(a) To get their stories straight.
(b) Bertrande was too overwhelmed to travel.
(c) To get to know one another "again."
(d) Pierre wanted to fix up their house before they returned.

3. What was the impostor's nickname?
(a) Shorty.
(b) Amore.
(c) Pansette.
(d) Lefty.

4. What example does the author give of other people who have taken a false identity?
(a) House burgulars.
(b) Kids in Halloween costumes.
(c) Actors in a play.
(d) Carnival participants.

5. In what way was the Guerre family's new village most like their old one?
(a) The leadership was weak.
(b) There were no jobs.
(c) The village was very poor.
(d) The land was fertile.

6. Who may have helped Bertrande during the time she was alone?
(a) Martin's sisters.
(b) Bertrande's mother.
(c) Pierre.
(d) Jean de Coras.

7. How did neighborhood boys tease Martin and his wife?
(a) They followed Martin and laughed at him.
(b) They dressed up as girls and danced in front of Martin's home.
(c) They trampled Martin's flowers.
(d) They threw rocks at Martin's house.

8. The Guerre family changes their name in the story. What was their original name?
(a) Laguerre.
(b) Van Guerre.
(c) Daguerre.
(d) McGuerre.

9. How did the family feel about Martin's impostor after they realized he was getting greedy?
(a) They treated him like family.
(b) They wanted him to die.
(c) They regarded him as an outsider.
(d) They respected him more.

10. Why couldn't Bertrande end her marriage and remarry?
(a) It was not allowed by the laws of the Catholic church.
(b) Sanxi would not let her.
(c) Pierre would not let her.
(d) Her child would lose his/her inheritance.

11. In what country was the Guerre family's new home?
(a) Italy.
(b) Spain.
(c) England.
(d) France.

12. What was the relationship between Sanxi and Martin?
(a) They were cousins.
(b) They were father and son.
(c) They were brothers.
(d) They were friends.

13. The author speculates about where Martin could have gone when he disappeared. What does the author say was the most likely place Martin went to?
(a) Spain.
(b) Germany.
(c) France.
(d) Italy.

14. Where was the village the Guerre family moved from?
(a) Basque country near the border of the Kingdom of Spain
(b) Fiox in the French province of Languedoc.
(c) Rieux in Spain.
(d) Artigat in the French province of Languedoc.

15. How many brothers did the impostor have?
(a) Eight.
(b) Five.
(c) Two.
(d) Six.

Short Answer Questions

1. What new language is Martin believed to have learned after leaving home?

2. What alternate term is used for "Lord," in the impostor's old village?

3. Why didn't Bertrande end her marriage?

4. Martin's impostor was _________________.

5. Why did Bertrande have to maintain she always believed the impostor was Martin?

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