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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. What village did the Guerre family move to?
(a) Rieux.
(b) Foix.
(c) Hendaye.
(d) Artigat.

2. Sanxi and Pierre were good with numbers, but could not____________.
(a) Follow directions.
(b) Count over 100.
(c) Write their own names.
(d) Make money.

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

4. Who met the impostor first?
(a) Pierre.
(b) Martin's sisters.
(c) Sanxi.
(d) Bertrande.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the relationship between Pierre and Martin?

3. Why were there no pictures of Martin to compare to the impostor?

4. 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?

5. How was Bertrande's life affected by Martin's disappearance and the scandal?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did Martin's name possibly contribute to his decision to disappear?

3. 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?

4. 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?

5. After Pierre began accusing the impostor of being an impostor, what criminal course of action did Pierre take?

6. How have Catholic views changed today? How are they the same?

7. Why would being Protestant help the impostor and Bertrande's case?

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

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

10. 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."

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