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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 does Antoine say is the greatest benefit received by machines?
(a) They spread unity and love.
(b) They inspire progression.
(c) They raise the quality of life.
(d) They bring people together.

2. How did one of Antoine's friends die while in the Sahara?
(a) A scorpion bit him.
(b) A tribe killed him.
(c) His plane crashed.
(d) He died of thirst.

3. What did Antoine feel like among the elements in the sky?
(a) An element.
(b) An essential component.
(c) An intruder.
(d) A symbiotic addition.

4. What does Antoine say machines annihilate for humans?
(a) Energy.
(b) Time.
(c) Money.
(d) Intelligence.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Antoine say the clay of life is set?

2. What was Guillaumet's occupation?

3. What did Mermoz do when his plane wouldn't start while stranded on a cliff?

4. What was the worst feeling Antoine experienced during the natural disaster?

5. Where did Antoine land after the natural disaster?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Antoine think as he boarded the bus heading to his first day of flying?

2. What does Antoine say made his experience being lost noble?

3. What did Antoine find when he thought he was in a place where no man had been before, and what did he think they were?

4. How did Antoine feel about his housekeeper as a child?

5. How long did Guillaumet go without sleeping while he was stranded and why?

6. To what does Antoine compare himself when his plane dropped down without any control from him?

7. What does Antoine say he knows he know he sounds like when describing the typhoon?

8. What does Antoine say about women when he landed in Punta Arenas?

9. What did Antoine notice about the sky just before the typhoon?

10. What were the worst moments of the typhoon for Antoine?

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