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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 important 'kit' does Major Pincon own?
(a) The map
(b) The guns
(c) The foodstores
(d) The armor

2. What is the only thing that Bardamu wishes for in Section 9?
(a) To go back to Paris
(b) To get out of the jungle
(c) To go back to the hospital
(d) To go back to the war

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

4. Whom does Bardamu meet outside while investigating a town in Section 3?
(a) Alcide
(b) Princhard
(c) Robinson
(d) Grapper

5. What makes the Putas sad about the war?
(a) The loss of money to their business
(b) The idea of parents' children drying
(c) That they are fighting the Germans
(d) That everything is rationed

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bardamu call the condition that he and those he is jailed with have in Section 5?

2. Where does Lola come from?

3. How does Bardamu think Americans solve their boredom?

4. What happens if the inmates in Section 5 are not cured?

5. What does Bardamu feel about the German people?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who saves Bardamu from the jungle?

2. Whom does Bardamu meet outside Noirceur who becomes an enduring character in his own life?

3. Why does Bardamu join the army in Section 1?

4. What is the significance of Major Pincon's map?

5. What is the traditional cure for cowardice used in the military hospitals?

6. What do the hospital patients attempt to do to amuse themselves?

7. What does Bardamu feel about Lola and the people of Paris?

8. What does Bardamu decide is strange - yet respectful - about Sergeant Alcide?

9. Why does Bardamu look down on the nurses?

10. In Section 5 and 6, where is Bardamu staying, and why?

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