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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Manech offer to teach Mathilde to do?
(a) Paint.
(b) Swim.
(c) Read.
(d) Walk.

2. Why didn't Poux see Manech die?
(a) He didn't know which one was Manech.
(b) He was often fetching things for other soldiers.
(c) He couldn't look at such devastation.
(d) He couldn't see outside of the trench.

3. How does Sylvain know to look in the newspaper for information?
(a) He receives a call.
(b) He was looking at the paper anyway.
(c) He received a letter.
(d) He heard the commotion behind him.

4. What did Benoit hear someone yell as the shelling continued?
(a) Gordes was also still alive.
(b) Manech was still alive.
(c) French soldiers yelling shit.
(d) Eskimo was dead.

5. Who called Sylvain?
(a) Pierre-Marie.
(b) Manech.
(c) Spires.
(d) Poux.

6. Where did the medical orderly tell Tina he saw one of the condemned men alive?
(a) Paris.
(b) Combles.
(c) Bingo.
(d) Prussia.

7. Which of the following literary terms best describes how this novel ends?
(a) Alliteration.
(b) Simile.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Flashback.

8. How do the soldiers bury the men?
(a) Separately.
(b) In shallow graves.
(c) In a newly made cemetary.
(d) Together.

9. Who does Mathilde believe had enacted the plan to exchange the boots?
(a) Six-Soux.
(b) The Man.
(c) Ange.
(d) Manech.

10. How long did it take Mathilde to uncover the truth?
(a) 5 years.
(b) 2 years.
(c) 7 years.
(d) 10 years.

11. Why did Heidi Weiss come to Bingo?
(a) To mourn over her brother's grave.
(b) To search for her long lost love.
(c) To find out the truth about her husband's death.
(d) To see the area where her father was killed.

12. How many Newfoundland soldiers arrived at Bingo?
(a) 5.
(b) 10.
(c) 11.
(d) 15.

13. Why does Poux believe That Man died first?
(a) He saw him being shot 15 times and falling into the snow.
(b) He saw him riddled with bullets and fall back into the trench covered in blood.
(c) He saw him dive back into the trench and be thrown back up into the air.
(d) He saw him crawl behind a pile of bricks as the enemy machine gun made 15 passes.

14. Why can't Mathilde contact Favart?
(a) He left for America.
(b) He died.
(c) Tina didn't know where he was.
(d) He was in an asylum.

15. What would Mathilde need to be able to decode the letter from Benoit?
(a) The key to the code.
(b) More information about Benoit.
(c) A magnifying glass.
(d) The original letter.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long after their engagement does Manech leave for the war?

2. Whose idea was it for Tina to become a prostitute?

3. What happened to Desrochelles after he was cared for at the military hospital?

4. What name is Manech now known as?

5. How old was Mathilde when she first met Manech?

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