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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does a passing soldier offer to Florence?

2. What does the couple in Chapter 5 do for a living?

3. What institute does the Pericand family contribute money to?

4. In Chapter 2, what does the father tell the mother that the family must do?

5. After running out of fuel, why is Charles Langelet afraid to leave his car?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the scene in the town where Gabriel Corte has refused a room.

2. What does the elder Monsieur Pericand dictate in his will to the notary?

3. What are Philippe Pericand's feelings toward the children of the Children's Home?

4. Why do the orphans turn on Father Philippe so violently?

5. Describe the Michauds.

6. In the opening of the novel, what is happening in Paris and what are the attitudes of the citizens?

7. Describe the scene between Corbin and the Michauds concerning their voyage to Tours. What does Corbin threaten the Michauds with if they do not meet him in Tours?

8. What is the atmosphere of Paris and among its citizens in Chapters 5 and 6?

9. Why is Father Philippe Pericand torn by his feelings about the boys he is caring for?

10. According to the conversation between Hortense, Jules, and Aline, what are their feelings toward the rich?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the attitudes of the poor toward the rich. These attitudes are largely expressed through Hortense Gaillard and her traveling party and the other servants of the novel. What are these people's opinions of the rich? Does the fact that they work for the rich factor into their opinions? Do the poor have a harder time making it during the war? Provide examples.

Essay Topic 2

All of the different socio-economic classes in France at the time are represented through the different characters in the novel. Identify a character or family of characters that represent each different class, from servants to the working class to the middle class to the upper class. How does the war affect the people in the classes differently? Are the poor more susceptible to the negative attributes of war than the people in the middle and upper classes? How do people from the different classes view the war and the occupation?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the attitudes of the rich toward the poor in the novel. How do we see these attitudes expressed? Which characters express their opinion of the poor, either through words or actions? How do we see the division of the rich and the poor displayed even during war? Do the rich have an easier time during the war and the evacuation? Provide examples.

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