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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. The author believes the impostor might have even _________ his act as Martin.
(a) Written about.
(b) Advertised.
(c) Regretted.
(d) Rehearsed.

2. How many children did Arnaud and Betrande produce?
(a) Five.
(b) Six.
(c) Two.
(d) Three.

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

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

5. Who do Bertrande and Martin name their baby boy after?
(a) Martin's uncle.
(b) Martin.
(c) Martin's father.
(d) Bernarde's father.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was a large area populated by Protestants called in France?

2. What is the relationship between Pierre and Martin?

3. What did Martin and his wife name their child?

4. Instead of considering Martin and Bertrande's problem as a medical condition, villagers believed they were ______.

5. How did neighborhood boys tease Martin and his wife?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the impostor do that began to upset Pierre?

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

3. 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."

4. Why does the author say the impostor was so easily accepted?

5. The idea that Martin and Bertrande were "bewitched," is a laughable conclusion today. What is a more logical explanation for Martin and Bertrande's inability to consummate their marriage?

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

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

8. In Chapter 3, the author wrote Bertrande was independent. List three examples that support this claim.

9. If the Guerre's home village of Hendaye and their new village, Artigat, were the same, why did the Guerres move?

10. Why do you think the DaGuerres shortened their name to Guerre?

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