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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bardamu feel about the German people?
(a) He likes them
(b) He is jealous of them
(c) He hates them
(d) He has never had a quarrel with them

2. What do the soldiers have to do every month in order to get supplies?
(a) Rebuild the dock
(b) Sail upriver
(c) Bribe their superior officers
(d) Fight off the natives

3. How are the inmates in Section 5 cured?
(a) Counseling
(b) They are threatened with death on a regular basis
(c) Speeches and electroshock therapy
(d) Anti-depressant medication

4. Who benefits from the war in Bardamu's estimation?
(a) The rich and powerful
(b) The poor and the needy
(c) The military
(d) The British Isles

5. What does Bardamu think he is going to find in America?
(a) Everyone there is rich
(b) Everyone there is beautiful
(c) There are poor people there, too
(d) Everyone there adheres to one religion

6. How do the patients amuse themselves at the hospital?
(a) By making fun of the Normals
(b) By attempting to be more patriotic than the others
(c) By playing pool
(d) By attacking and playing jokes on the staff

7. In Section 12, where is Bardamu asked to go to?
(a) Manhattan
(b) San Francisco
(c) Washington
(d) Seattle

8. According to Bardamu, why do the whites work so hard in the colonies?
(a) They are hard-working citizens
(b) They will be beaten otherwise
(c) Life is so hard
(d) They have fantasies about becoming rich

9. Where does Bardamu decide to go in Section 9?
(a) The first outpost before the jungle
(b) The last outpost before the jungle
(c) America
(d) China

10. Why did Princhard steal?
(a) Because customarily thieves are not allowed to serve in the army
(b) Because he was hungry
(c) Because he was greedy
(d) Because he is a kleptomaniac

11. Where is Bardamu incarcerated?
(a) In a civilian prison
(b) In a military prison
(c) A military hospital
(d) In a prisoner of war camp

12. What does Bardamu think about American couples?
(a) All American men have beautiful wives
(b) They rarely speak to each other
(c) They hate each other
(d) They are very passionate with one another

13. In Section 4, where does Bardamu begin the narrative?
(a) At a carnival
(b) The front line
(c) In a hospital
(d) In Britain

14. Where does Bardamu decide to go?
(a) To Fort Gono
(b) To the last trading post before the jungle
(c) To Britain
(d) To America

15. What family do Bardamu and the individual he starts hanging around with in Section 7 go to see?
(a) Grapper
(b) Henrouille
(c) Puta
(d) Alcide

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Bardamu receive his war medal?

2. Why does Lola leave Bardamu?

3. What public occasion does Bardamu see passing his window?

4. What new skill has Bardamu developed in Section 11, following his illness?

5. What makes the Putas sad about the war?

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