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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Manech mark the occasion of his and Mathilde's engagement?
(a) By writing three Ms on his arm.
(b) By carving three Ms in a tree.
(c) By running outside and yelling it to the world.
(d) By annoucing it to Sylvain and Benedicte.

2. What does the sergeant tell the men that they will need to do?
(a) Move the men.
(b) Bury the men.
(c) Leave the men be.
(d) Pray for the men.

3. Who does Mathilde let read all of the information she collected in the mahogany box?
(a) Sylvain.
(b) Pierre-Marie.
(c) Pire.
(d) Her father.

4. How long did Manech receive training before he was sent to the front as a foot soldier?
(a) Less than a week.
(b) A month.
(c) About a year.
(d) Three weeks.

5. On what day of the week did they arrive?
(a) Friday.
(b) Saturday.
(c) Monday.
(d) Wednesday.

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

7. What does Mathilde do when she sees Manech for the first time?
(a) Begs him to remember.
(b) Runs to him.
(c) Calls out his name.
(d) Cries.

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

9. Why does Pierre-Marie contact Mathilde?
(a) He was telling her to come home immediately.
(b) He wanted her to know that Tina wrote a letter to Mathilde.
(c) He was telling her information about her father.
(d) He wanted her to know what happened to Tina.

10. How does Mathilde find Benoit?
(a) She stops at the school and asks about his son.
(b) She talks to the priest.
(c) She walks around the town asking.
(d) She has her lawyer contact him.

11. What is Poux's nickname?
(a) The nightmare.
(b) The man.
(c) The army one.
(d) Terror of the army.

12. What did the Eskimo do in regards to the biplane?
(a) Threw a grenade at it.
(b) Fired a machine gun at it.
(c) Threw a flare at it, setting it on fire.
(d) Pointed at it and laughed.

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

14. What information did Tina share about Layrouye?
(a) He was the one who had killed the men.
(b) It was his idea to throw them over the trench.
(c) He sentenced them to death.
(d) He lied about the men's pardon.

15. Why does Mathilde head to Somme?
(a) To try and find a clue as to where Manech is living.
(b) To meet with Tina.
(c) To see where Manech is buried.
(d) To talk with the private investigator.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what time of day did the Newfoundland soldiers arrive at Bingo?

2. Where does Mathilde believe Mariette went to meet Benoit?

3. Who does Mathilde believe had enacted the plan to exchange the boots?

4. With what does the story end?

5. What did Poux witness Common Law do once he left the trench?

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