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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Antoine say the human soul remembers?
(a) The lives it touches.
(b) The love it feels and shares.
(c) Those things which unite it to other souls.
(d) The actions that move worlds.

2. What does Antoine say the man who marries one of the girls will do to her wild garden?
(a) Hedge it up.
(b) Lock it up.
(c) Kill it.
(d) Tame it.

3. Where was Antoine headed when he crash landed in the desert?
(a) Paris.
(b) Saigon.
(c) Cairo.
(d) London.

4. What did Antoine use to make a bonfire after his crash landing?
(a) His rucksack.
(b) A pile of dried droppings.
(c) A wing of the plane.
(d) His clothes.

5. What did the Arabs name Mohammed?
(a) Tree.
(b) Leaf.
(c) Trunk.
(d) Bark.

6. About what does Antoine wonder while remembering his experience at the table with the two girls?
(a) What became of them.
(b) If they ever got rid of the lemmings.
(c) Where they are living.
(d) Why they loved the snakes so much.

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

8. To what faction did Pepin belong?
(a) Socialism.
(b) Capitalism.
(c) Fascism.
(d) Anarchism.

9. What does Antoine think most young girls dream about?
(a) Young men.
(b) Flying.
(c) Living somewhere new.
(d) Being like their parents.

10. What does Antoine say was washed from the people on the train?
(a) Potential.
(b) Intelligence.
(c) Dreams.
(d) Love.

11. What makes the child on the train glow?
(a) His smile.
(b) His youth.
(c) His identity.
(d) His potential.

12. What always follows intelligence in children?
(a) Fallacy.
(b) Potential.
(c) Pride.
(d) Delicacy.

13. What kind of man does Antoine think will marry the two girls?
(a) A rich suitor.
(b) An older and wiser man than himself.
(c) A charming man.
(d) An imbecile.

14. What was the name of the man with Antoine when he crash landed in the desert?
(a) Prevot.
(b) Privvy.
(c) Previne.
(d) Provost.

15. What word does Antoine use to describe the killing of lives?
(a) Ridiculous.
(b) Horrible.
(c) Nonsensical.
(d) Frightening.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom did Antoine stay when he saw his first oasis?

2. For what did the children in the desert beg?

3. What did two opposing sides call one another after a day of battling?

4. What time of day did Antoine go looking for water after his crash landing?

5. What does Antoine compare Madrid to while he and Pepin watched it being bombed?

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