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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6: Oasis.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Antoine always hope to remember?
(a) The scope of his future.
(b) The influence he holds for others.
(c) The importance of childhood.
(d) The significance of his dreams.

2. Which of the following is NOT something that Antoine says that machines help people to do?
(a) Communicate.
(b) Teach.
(c) Entertain.
(d) Invent.

3. What does Antoine say was the most significant part of a physical struggle?
(a) The spiritual aspect.
(b) The mental capacity.
(c) The ability to keep it in the past.
(d) The shared experience.

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

5. What did Mermoz teach Antoine to do?
(a) Land on a sea air strip.
(b) Push back the fear in his mind.
(c) Use his pack as a floatation device.
(d) Create a map.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does Antoine compare himself when he describes the sudden descent of his plane?

2. What holiday did Antoine feel he was celebrating when he was in the Sahara with some pilots?

3. What color are the strange rocks that Antoine found in the place he thinks no other human had been?

4. What filled the house in Antoine's dream in the desert?

5. What view does Antoine think he is stealing when he is flying?

(see the answer key)

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