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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. Where is Ruzena from?
(a) Bohemia.
(b) Germany.
(c) Poland.
(d) America.

2. How are businessmen seen in Part Three of the book?
(a) As good citizens.
(b) As lazy.
(c) As swindlers.
(d) As royalty.

3. How does Huguenau try to get the newspaper business?
(a) Huguenau develops a financial scheme.
(b) Huguenau blackmails the owner.
(c) Huguenau steals the deed.
(d) Huguenau tries to prove the owner is incompetent.

4. Who owns the newspaper office in Moselle?
(a) Erna.
(b) August.
(c) Joachim.
(d) Bertrand.

5. What is Martin's job?
(a) He is a trade union organizer.
(b) He is a custom inspector.
(c) He is a theater operator.
(d) He runs a restaurant.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many siblings does Joachim have?

2. What did Joachim regret in relation to his brother?

3. What treatment did the doctor administer to Joachim's father?

4. What is Marie in the Salvation Army?

5. For what country is Huguenau fighting in the war?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does August dislike about his current job as a newspaper editor?

2. How does Huguenau behave with the townspeople?

3. What is Hanna's state of mind in Part Three?

4. How do people regard business in Part Three, Chapter I - VII and how are businessmen perceived?

5. What happened when the narrator in Part Three, Chapter XXVII offered to take Marie to a restaurant?

6. Why does August cease his efforts to promote women's wrestling and stop planning to go to America?

7. What is Hanna's marriage compared with?

8. Why was Joachim being sent to military school early?

9. Why does Ruzena shoot Bertrand?

10. What happens on Joachim and Elisabeth's wedding night?

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