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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which character lies motionless in his cot with his eyes open?
(a) Balducci
(b) Students
(c) Arab
(d) Daru

2. What could be said is used by the author to represent the anxiousness of Daru?
(a) Personification
(b) False foreshawdowing
(c) Protagonism
(d) Irony

3. How does the author say soldiers are brought together to become part of a shared community?
(a) Fatigue and alliances
(b) Fatigue and goals
(c) Dreams and goals
(d) Dreams and fatigue

4. Which of the following words is plural?
(a) Decision
(b) Suggests
(c) Responsible
(d) Approach

5. What is the Daru in charge of as related to the Arab?
(a) His placement
(b) His fate
(c) His choices
(d) His life

6. Which of the following words is a compound word?
(a) Chalkboard
(b) Disobeyed
(c) Threatening
(d) Conclusion

7. When Daru wakes up the Arab who looks frightened. This is an example of what?
(a) Imagery
(b) Personification
(c) Similes
(d) Metaphors

8. The implication that Daru is saddened by the Arab's choice is an example of:
(a) Metaphor
(b) Hyperbole
(c) Allusion
(d) Allegory

9. Which of the following words is not a preposition?
(a) Puts
(b) On
(c) Before
(d) Above

10. Which of the following could be a synonym for fate?
(a) Destiny
(b) Will
(c) Choice
(d) Accident

11. Which of the following is an example of a paradox?
(a) Grass as green as a shamrock
(b) Standing is harder than walking
(c) Flowers smell like expensive perfume
(d) Pencils can be sharpened

12. The imagery of throwing pebbles in the snow reminds the reader of which story element?
(a) Events
(b) Plot
(c) Setting
(d) Characters

13. Which emotion might Daru have been feeling as he looked out over the deserted land beyond the plateau?
(a) Hopeful
(b) Cheerful
(c) Relieved
(d) Forlorn

14. Who is the author of this story?
(a) Albert Balducci
(b) Daru Balducci
(c) Albert Camus
(d) Daru Camus

15. Daru is to hunter as Arab is to:
(a) Foreign
(b) Student
(c) Hunted
(d) Prey

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following would be a synonym for foreshadow?

2. Which of the following words is a compound word?

3. Which word best describes Daru's feelings about the Arab's crime?

4. What do both the reader and Daru discover is happening during the long, lonely, sleepless night?

5. How does Daru feel about the journey in the morning?

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