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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. How is Jean Bridelle looked upon by others?
(a) As a murderer.
(b) As a skeptic.
(c) As a heretic.
(d) As a philosopher.

2. What does Desplein's student do when he follows Desplein into church?
(a) Tells the priest that Desplein does not belong in the church.
(b) Kneels by him.
(c) Goes into confession.
(d) Hides in the back of the church.

3. What is the name of one of the philosophers that the men give to Micromegas in response to a human's soul?
(a) Locke.
(b) Freud.
(c) Kant.
(d) Darwin.

4. What happens to Julian's parents while they are sleeping in his wife's bed?
(a) The Emperor kills them.
(b) Julian kills them.
(c) Julian's wife kills them.
(d) Julian's brother-in-law kills them.

5. What is laying on the grass next to the boy behind the iron gate?
(a) A beautiful dog.
(b) A magnificent toy.
(c) His nanny.
(d) A dead bird.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Julian's wife convince him to do?

2. What religion was the water carrier that Desplein knew as a young man?

3. What happened to the water carrier that Desplein knew as a young man?

4. What "gift" does Micromegas give to the humans he encounters?

5. What does Jean Bridelle compare the borders of small trees to?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Micromegas and the Saturnian surprised by the men on the ship?

2. What does the garden mean for the old couple in "Minuet?"

3. In "The Mass of the Atheist," why was the famous French surgeon Desplein's death upsetting, even for his enemies?

4. According to Jean Bridelle, in "Minuet," what is the most violent grief a man and mother can bear?

5. What was Julian taught when he was seven-years-old?

6. Describe how Desplein saw the earth.

7. Describe the type of friend that Horace Bianchon was.

8. How did the curse of the stag come to be true in "The Legend of St. Julian Hospitaler?"

9. Why are the secretary and the other men of his planet upset with the small number (72) of senses that they have in "Micromegas?"

10. What was Desplein's first selfless act that Horace witnessed?

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