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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8: Prisoner of the Sand.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Antoine describe women in general?
(a) Utterly tragic.
(b) Half divine.
(c) Bewildering.
(d) Beautiful and strange.

2. To what does Antoine compare people who hate machines?
(a) Mongrels.
(b) Fear mongerers.
(c) Ingrates.
(d) Barbarians.

3. What does Antoine contemplate when he landed in Punta Arenas?
(a) Technology.
(b) Religion.
(c) Humanity.
(d) Womanhood.

4. What caused Antoine to think he was going mad after his crash landing?
(a) He thought about shooting himself.
(b) He thought about God.
(c) He saw his partner withering away.
(d) He saw cities and oases.

5. Where did the dew come from after Antoine's crash landing?
(a) An oasis.
(b) Some root vegetables.
(c) Far off rain showers.
(d) The Nile.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Antoine wish he could shock with his adventures while he was dreaming in the desert?

2. What did people during Antoine's age say machines were doing to the human race?

3. What does Antoine say machines annihilate for humans?

4. What does Antoine think the strange rocks are that he found in the place he thinks no other human had been?

5. To what does Antoine compare a well designed plane?

(see the answer key)

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