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

2. What water form was the sign of God's water power to the desert men?
(a) A lake.
(b) The ocean.
(c) A river.
(d) A waterfall.

3. What does Antoine curse at the end of the book?
(a) Industry.
(b) God.
(c) Technology.
(d) France.

4. To what does Antoine compare the war politics?
(a) A university.
(b) A hospital.
(c) A prison.
(d) The creation.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom does Antoine compare the child on the train?

2. Where was Antoine flying from when he crash landed in the desert?

3. Where does Antoine say he spent the best years of his life?

4. How did the desert men feel after taking air tours over France?

5. What did a former French prince decide to become?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Antoine say the people on the train have sacrificed to bureaucracy?

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

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

5. What did Antoine see on the meteorology report before heading out to Saigon?

6. What does Antoine say dies when a man is killed?

7. To what does Antoine compare the sergeant who reluctantly joined the war?

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

9. What does Antoine say a human soul remembers after death?

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

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