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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Mathilde think was the woman who visited the Eskimo's lover?
(a) Veronique Passavant.
(b) Pierre Marie.
(c) Tima Lambardi.
(d) Elodi Gordes.

2. What does Mathilde do when she gets home?
(a) Looks through the items Esperanza gave her.
(b) Tries to contact one of the family members of another person on the list.
(c) Talks to her family about what Esperanza told her.
(d) Cries from grief over her lost love.

3. What season is it as this novel opens?
(a) Spring.
(b) Fall.
(c) Winter.
(d) Summer.

4. What does Manech wear as he walks with the others?
(a) A hat taken from a dead soldier.
(b) A blood smear from his friend.
(c) A faraway smile.
(d) A look of intense grief.

5. What wish does Captain Favourier speak of in his letter?
(a) The wish that he will be forgiven for what he did.
(b) The wish that he had ignored orders.
(c) The wish to get orders to collect the men.
(d) The wish Esperanza forget everything that was done.

6. Why did Cornflower try to eat tainted meat?
(a) To make himself appear jaundiced.
(b) To avoid being killed by an enemy soldier.
(c) As penance for suriving when his friend did not.
(d) To kill himself.

7. Which of the following characters is from Paris?
(a) Cornflower.
(b) Eskimo.
(c) Common Law.
(d) Angel.

8. What does Mathilde search for as she begins to try to prove Pierre-Marie wrong?
(a) Manech's commanding officer.
(b) Military records.
(c) A stamp.
(d) The trench named Bingo.

9. Where does Mathilde spend much of her time?
(a) Walking through the trenches.
(b) Her family's vacation home.
(c) In Paris.
(d) In England, in the hospital.

10. Why does the smile make the other men uncomfortable?
(a) Because they know he is being led to his death.
(b) Because it has an eerie look to it.
(c) Because even as he yells, he smiles.
(d) Because it does not reach his eyes.

11. What is Daniel Esperanza dying from?
(a) Trench illness.
(b) Wounds sustained in war.
(c) Consumption.
(d) Spanish Flu.

12. Why did Elodie Gordes hire the private investigator?
(a) To find another clue to where her husband might be living.
(b) To find her long lost lover.
(c) To understand the truth of that day at Bingo.
(d) To have her husband declared legally dead.

13. Where did Leprince suggest Mathilde look for Celestin?
(a) Charnentes.
(b) Bingo.
(c) Le Boisseau.
(d) Paris.

14. How does Mathilde gain information about Mariette's whereabouts?
(a) She talks to her young son, Baptistin.
(b) She writes to the priest who married them.
(c) She goes back to visit Esperanza.
(d) She goes to visit her in Paris.

15. How did Elodie describe Benjamin's mood when he came home from the war on leave?
(a) Relieved.
(b) Over joyed.
(c) Depressed.
(d) Anxious.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following characters is probably thinking about his fiance as he is walking with the others?

2. Which of the following was not one of the items Manech had requested from the cook?

3. How many men does Pierre-Marie tell Esperanza were condemned to death after being convicted of self-mutilation?

4. Who writes to Mathilde in January of 1920?

5. Who does Six-Soux send his letter to?

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