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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Overall, Artigat was considered a __________place to live than the impostor's old village.
(a) Worse.
(b) Better.
(c) Prettier.
(d) More important.

2. What year did the impostor make his entrance into Bertrande's life?
(a) 1555.
(b) 1558.
(c) 1556.
(d) 1553.

3. Only one of the children the impostor and Bertrande produced lived. What was this child's name?
(a) Pierre.
(b) Bertrande.
(c) Sanxi.
(d) Bernarde.

4. What did the village shoemaker say about the impostor's feet?
(a) They only had nine toes.
(b) They were too small to be Martin's.
(c) They had scars.
(d) They were too big to be Martin's.

5. What physical evidence was there that the impostor could not be Martin?
(a) Martin had a wooden arm.
(b) Martin was missing a finger.
(c) Martin had a glass eye.
(d) Martin had a wooden leg.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote, "We collected much booty, weapons, horses, golden chains, silver and other things?"

2. Bertrande, like most women of her time, took on traditional female work, such as house work, crafting, spinning thread, and baking bread. What other work did women do at the time?

3. How many brothers did the impostor have?

4. The author speculates Bertrande dreamed of a husband who would come back and ____________.

5. Land was limited in the impostor's village. How did peasants find enough land to farm?

Short Essay Questions

1. What ways does the author describe other cases of people taking a false identity?

2. What is meant by the following statement: "The realities of this peasant world encourage not only the skills of a good farm wife, but the woman's ability to get her way with the men and to calculate her advantages, say, in remaining a widow."

3. In Chapter 4, what specific similarities does the author point out about Martin and the impostor?

4. Why do you think Bertrande refused to get out of her marriage when she had the chance?

5. In Chapter 4, what specific differences does the author point out about Martin and the impostor?

6. How was the Guerre's home village of Hendaye and their new village, Artigat, the same?

7. The impostor was methodical in his deception. He took about 3 years to research his role and then began planting information that Martin was back before he contacted Martin's family. Why do you think the impostor was so slow to implement his con?

8. What fact does the author present that may give her reason to believe Sanxi had forgiven Martin before Sanxi died?

9. How did parents view marriage and reproduction in the 1500's in relation to their children?

10. If passing soldiers in Hendaye were somehow ruining the land, why would that affect the Guerres?

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