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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Cincinnatus say when he learns his mother has come to see him?
(a) He doesn't want to see her.
(b) He is glad to meet with her again.
(c) He has been searching for her and is happy to see her for the first time.
(d) He is too exhausted to have an opinion.

2. Who has asked Marthe to marry him?
(a) The prison director.
(b) Their former neighbor.
(c) Pierre.
(d) A city official.

3. What does Emmie say that she and Cincinnatus should do after he is rescued?
(a) Travel the world.
(b) Get married.
(c) Rob a train.
(d) Build a castle.

4. What initials are supposed to be spelled out in lights in the park?
(a) "E" and "P."
(b) "P" and "C."
(c) "M" and "P."
(d) "P" and "R."

5. What does Pierre lecture Cincinnatus on, in the evening after Emmie tells Cincinnatus she is planning his escape?
(a) Pleasure, starting with erotic pleasure.
(b) Love, starting with brotherly love.
(c) The nature of virtue and obedience.
(d) The conflict between man's spiritual and earthly natures.

6. What does Cincinnatus have trouble deciding about his letter to Marthe?
(a) What to write it on.
(b) How to end it.
(c) Whether to send it.
(d) How to begin it.

7. What does Cincinnatus attribute the scratching on the walls to?
(a) Someone tunneling toward him to help him escape.
(b) His own overactive imagination.
(c) Rats in the walls.
(d) An unknown prisoner in the next cell trying to communicate.

8. What happens to the scratching noises when Cincinnatus makes noise?
(a) They stop.
(b) They move to another part of the wall.
(c) They get louder.
(d) They get very quiet.

9. What do the guards bring Cincinnatus instead of hot chocolate to drink?
(a) Tea.
(b) Coffee.
(c) Milk.
(d) Wine.

10. What does Cincinnatus think when the scratching noises pause and then continue?
(a) That he has communicated.
(b) That the scratcher may want to harm him.
(c) That he cannot stop them.
(d) That the scratcher is uncertain.

11. How do the city officials say to Pierre at the end of the supper?
(a) They warn him to be careful.
(b) They hope they'll have more executions for him.
(c) They congratulate him.
(d) They give him a raise.

12. What does Pierre anoint himself and Cincinnatus with?
(a) Wine.
(b) Perfume.
(c) Blood.
(d) Oil.

13. Why does CIncinnatus ask the guards to stop bringing the paper?
(a) Because he finds the news depressing.
(b) Because articles about his upcoming execution are always clipped out.
(c) Because the newspaper is always filled with lies about him.
(d) Because the papers are starting to pile up in the corner of the cell.

14. What does Cincinnatus refuse to do after Pierre's speech about why he pretended to be a prisoner?
(a) Shake Pierre's hand.
(b) Give Pierre a hug.
(c) Listen to Pierre.
(d) Look at Pierre.

15. How does Cincinnatus feel when he wakes on the scheduled morning of his execution?
(a) Relieved.
(b) Afraid.
(c) Numb.
(d) Angry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What park is next to the meeting between Pierre, Cincinnatus, and the city officials?

2. What does Emmie whisper in Cincinnatus's ear?

3. What does Cincinnatus learn from the newspaper?

4. Who comes through the tunnel?

5. What does Pierre do when Rodrig Ivanovich comes in to listen to his lecture?

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