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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. Before the crash landing, what did Antoine think he saw in the Middle East when he looked at a meteorology map before taking off?
(a) A typhoon.
(b) A sand storm.
(c) A strange calm night.
(d) A wind current.

2. What does Antoine say dirtied the people on the train?
(a) Idleness.
(b) Thought.
(c) Labor.
(d) Anger.

3. What did Antoine and the French Sergeant in the desert talk about on his roof?
(a) The stars.
(b) The French Legion.
(c) The dangers of flying.
(d) The desert mysteries.

4. What made Antoine know surviving after the crash landing was worth the effort?
(a) The humility he learned through the experience.
(b) The raise his boss gave him.
(c) The beautiful words he wrote about it.
(d) The rejoicing of his landing.

5. Where was Antoine when he discovered some hope in humanity during the war?
(a) The hospital.
(b) His plane.
(c) A battlefield.
(d) A trench.

Short Answer Questions

1. What have the people on the train turned themselves into?

2. What did Antoine use to collect the dew after his crash landing?

3. What did the two girls at the first oasis like to feed in their spare time?

4. What do most soldiers do the night before a battle?

5. What is the color of the boy on the train?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Antoine say the killing in war is ironic?

2. How has the need for labor changed the people on the train?

3. How does Antoine start his chapter about oases?

4. What does Antoine think happened to the girls since he last saw them?

5. What did Antoine do for Bark before he left the desert?

6. What did Antoine do with all of his money while walking through a desert village one day?

7. How does Antoine describe the child he sees on the train?

8. What happened when Antoine sat at a table to eat with the two girls from Paraguay?

9. To what does Antoine compare himself at the end of the book?

10. How did Antoine and his mechanic feel as the journey to Saigon began?

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