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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. Who is considered the protagonist of this story?
(a) Daru
(b) Balducci
(c) El Ameur
(d) Arab

2. What does the Arab ask Daru?
(a) If he will let him go
(b) If he will go to police headquarters with him
(c) If he will shoot him
(d) If he will hurt him

3. What does Daru do after they finish eating?
(a) Makes a bed for the Arab
(b) Makes more tea for the Arab
(c) Takes the Arab's temperature
(d) Reads to the Arab

4. What is Daru armed with in the schoolhouse?
(a) Knife
(b) Handgun
(c) Shotgun
(d) Rifle

5. When Daru returns back to the classroom, what is the Arab doing?
(a) Lying down staring at the ceiling
(b) Sitting drinking tea
(c) Lying down reading
(d) Sitting down and eating a snack

Short Answer Questions

1. How far is it from the schoolhouse to Tinguit?

2. Who does Daru think of as he looks out over the deserted land beyond the plateau?

3. How far is it from El Ameur to the schoolhouse?

4. Which character is a gendarme for the French National Police?

5. Which direction does Daru head?

Short Essay Questions

1. Write one-sentence summary of the story?

2. Describe the setting near the schoolhouse.

3. Why does Daru tell Balducci not to bother restraining the Arab?

4. How is isolation portrayed by the setting?

5. What does Daru give to the students of the poor families when they come to the school?

6. How does Daru feel about the silence at the schoolhouse?

7. Describe what the author falsely foreshadows during the sleepless night the two men spend together.

8. What literary term describes how Daru feels caught between considering the Arab's crimes and his humanity?

9. Where is the final decision left as to the Arab's fate left?

10. Describe how the character the Arab looks.

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