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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. From what country is the author of this novel?
(a) France.
(b) Germany.
(c) England.
(d) America.

3. Where does Mathilde keep her papers where she organizes her thoughts?
(a) In a mahogany box Manech gave her.
(b) In the wedding trousseau she prepared for Manech.
(c) Under pillow as she slept and dreamed about Manech.
(d) In the personal journal Manech gave her.

4. What is Louis Teyssier to Eskimo?
(a) A business associate.
(b) A relative.
(c) A friend.
(d) A lover.

5. Which man readily admitted to Esperanza that he had committed self-mutilation?
(a) Eskimo.
(b) Six-Soux.
(c) Manech.
(d) Common Law.

6. What did Elodie reveal about her love of Benjamin in her letter to Mathilde?
(a) Her passion was not as strong as it was for her first lover.
(b) She tolerated him, but is just as glad that he is gone now.
(c) She pretended to love him to have a place to live.
(d) It was the strongest love she's ever felt.

7. Where did Mariette Notre-Dame go when she left for good leaving no forwarding address?
(a) Airport.
(b) A taxi out of the country.
(c) Train station.
(d) Monestary.

8. Why wouldn't Manech's captain let him go home?
(a) He didn't like him.
(b) He wanted him punished.
(c) He needed more soldiers.
(d) He didn't trust him.

9. How many men are being led to their deaths at the beginning of this novel?
(a) 7.
(b) 10.
(c) 5.
(d) 6.

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

11. What did Esperanza's commander tell him to do in regards to Bingo Crepuscule?
(a) Tell him about the captain's reluctance to follow orders there.
(b) Forget everything that happened there.
(c) Report on the success of his mission there.
(d) Write down the events that happened there.

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

13. Why does Germain say he will find Poux for no extra cost?
(a) He wants to prove himself.
(b) He knwos where he is hiding.
(c) He already was paid to find Poux.
(d) He loves Mathilde.

14. Who writes to Mathilde in January of 1920?
(a) Celestin Poux.
(b) Veronique Passavant.
(c) Benjamin Gordes.
(d) Captain Favourier.

15. What question did Germain Pier's letter answer for Mathilde?
(a) If Gordes was indeed dead.
(b) If Gordes was indeed related to Poux.
(c) If Gordes was one of the condemned men.
(d) If Gordes was wearing German boots.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Mathilde go to visit in October of 1919?

2. In what year was this novel made into a French film?

3. Why doesn't Elodie give Mathilde much information?

4. What happened when Mathilde sent a letter to the wife of The Man?

5. How does Mathilde gain information about Mariette's whereabouts?

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