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

2. Who was the only man not to answer to his name according to Captain Favourier's letter?
(a) Manech.
(b) Angel.
(c) Six-Soux.
(d) Common Law.

3. What were those that were convicted of self-mutilation but not sentenced to death required to do?
(a) Complete hard labor.
(b) Spend their days in jail.
(c) Leave the army.
(d) Assassinate enemy soldiers.

4. What did Little Louis believe the fight between Eskimo and Vera was about?
(a) Eskimo's bad habits.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Money.
(d) Another woman.

5. Why did Esperanza write Manech's letter?
(a) He refused to write one himself.
(b) He was injured in the hand he wrote with.
(c) He was illiterate and unable to write.
(d) He was in too much of a transe-like state to write.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is one of the things Mathilde was told in the letter she received from Passavant?

2. Why was Benjamin angry with Eskimo when Eskimo returned to war?

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

4. From what country is the author of this novel?

5. How many men are being led to their deaths at the beginning of this novel?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the captain explain would happen to the condemned men?

2. What does Mathilde's father agree to do for her, Sylvain and Benedicte?

3. Who has the strangest letter and what does it talk about?

4. What information was Favart able to share with Tina?

5. Where was Angel before the war and how did he end up in the war?

6. What information did Poux have about the Eskimo?

7. What did the Newfoundland soldiers do with the dead?

8. What was Six-Soux's goal and what decision did he make as a result of not achieving his goal?

9. What changed in regards to Tina and Nino's life that made it a no longer good life?

10. What did the Corporal who shot Common Law claim really happened?

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