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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 did the desert men plan to steal from Bonnafous?
(a) Planes.
(b) Camels.
(c) Food.
(d) Water.

2. What was the occupation of the man flying with Antoine when they crash landed in the desert?
(a) Linguist.
(b) Meteorologist.
(c) Mechanic.
(d) Courier.

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

4. What did a former French prince decide to become?
(a) A shepherd.
(b) A preacher.
(c) A monk.
(d) A wanderer.

5. Whose experience gave Antoine hope after his crash landing?
(a) Mermoz's.
(b) Previne's.
(c) Mohammed's.
(d) Guillaumet's.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Antoine, how did the house the two girls lived in once look long ago?

2. What stamp does Antoine say marked all the people on the train?

3. What kind of building does Antoine hate to see smoking from the air?

4. What does Antoine call himself at the end of the book?

5. How did two girls disappear and reappear while in the building Antoine stayed in when he saw his first oasis?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. To what does Antoine compare the people on the train?

3. How did Antoine and Prevot react when they met a caravan after their crash landing?

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

5. How does Antoine describe the house the two girls from Paraguay lived in?

6. What did the two girls from Paraguay like to do in their spare time?

7. How did the Moorish men feel when they saw the waterfall in France?

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

9. What made Antoine know his survival in the desert was worth the effort?

10. What caused the sergeant that Antoine met to join the war?

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