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

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

3. What was the outcome of Martin's wound?
(a) He got an infection and nearly died.
(b) His arm was amputated at the elbow.
(c) He arm was amputated and he got a wooden arm.
(d) His leg was amputated and he was given a wooden leg.

4. While Martin was away, what happened to Sanxi (Martin's father)?
(a) Sanxi caught the measles and nearly died.
(b) Sanxi was injured in a farming accident.
(c) Sanxi remarried.
(d) Sanxi died.

5. How many sisters did the real Martin have?
(a) Four.
(b) Two.
(c) Five.
(d) Three.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what age was Martin suspect to have married?

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

3. Why couldn't Bertrande end her marriage and remarry?

4. How long did it take the family to get to their new home?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Martin's years of impotence benefit Bertrande?

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

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

6. 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."

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

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

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

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

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