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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 friend.
(c) A lover.
(d) A relative.

2. What had the captain been before the war?
(a) Artist.
(b) Prison guard.
(c) History teacher.
(d) Barber.

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

4. What happened when Mathilde sent a letter to the wife of The Man?
(a) It was forwarded to Paris.
(b) It was returned saying she did not want to contact Mathilde.
(c) It was never answered or responded to.
(d) It was returned saying she was not at that address.

5. Who wrote the strangest of all of the letters?
(a) Six-Soux.
(b) Eskimo.
(c) Common Law.
(d) Angel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Esperanza allow the condemned men do as they ate?

2. Who does Mathilde hire Germain to find?

3. What were those that were convicted of self-mutilation but not sentenced to death required to do?

4. Who was the only man not to answer to his name according to Captain Favourier's letter?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. When Esperanza chose his ten men, how long had they been traveling?

2. How does Mathilde figure out the code in Benoit's letter?

3. What did Poux see about Mathilde and what did he recommend?

4. What does Elodie explain in her letter?

5. What does Poux tell Mathilde about the five condemned men?

6. What did the enemy do to the soldiers who were killed?

7. Who does Mathilde employ and for what purpose in November of 1919?

8. What does the first telegram that Mathilde receives from Pire say?

9. Who tells Mathilde that Manech has been killed?

10. What does Veronique Passavant tell Mathilde about Eskimo?

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