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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 much money does Lola give to Bardamu in Section 13?
(a) 10 dollars
(b) 1,000 dollars
(c) 1 dollar
(d) 100 dollars

2. How does Molly try to help Bardamu?
(a) By looking for another job
(b) By organizing a party for him
(c) By writing him love poetry
(d) By telling her friends about him

3. Where does Bardamu next work?
(a) At a movie theater
(b) In a hospital
(c) At a museum
(d) On a houseboat

4. What is the nature of the injury of the individual in the evening in Section 19?
(a) A missing limb
(b) Headaches
(c) Blindness
(d) Blood loss

5. What makes Bardamu think that humanity's cruelty has evolved?
(a) World War II breaks out
(b) The games at the carnival have grown crueller
(c) There are now planes in the shooting gallery
(d) People are nastier than he remembered them to be

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bardamu decide to do?

2. What can Bardamu not bring himself to do as a doctor?

3. What is Lola's mother suffering from?

4. What dreadful news does Bardemu hear just as he is leaving Toulouse?

5. What ruins Bardamu's experience of the movie theater forever?

Short Essay Questions

1. What job does Abbot Protiste suggest for Robinson and Grandma Henrouille?

2. Why does Bardamu gain a bad reputation as a doctor?

3. Who does Bardamu go to for money in Section 13?

4. Who is Molly?

5. What is Dr. Paraprine taken to doing in Section 20?

6. What does Bardamu hate about New York City?

7. Why does Bardamu look down upon the students that he hangs out with in Section 22?

8. Why is Bardamu suddenly disillusioned with the Tarapout Theater in Section 21?

9. What criticism does Bardamu offer for the scientific and medical communities?

10. What do we terribly suspect Robinson of doing in Section 23?

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