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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Search for the Father, The Child's Games.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What year did the husband and wife move from Algiers?
(a) 1953
(b) 1883
(c) 1913
(d) 1902

2. What part of the cemetery did the traveler specifically go to?
(a) The section for the homeless.
(b) The section for those who died in the war or 1914.
(c) The section for the unsaved souls.
(d) The section for the elitists.

3. What game was Pierre good at?
(a) Soccer.
(b) Poor man's tennis.
(c) Poor man's basketball.
(d) Stickball.

4. What was the mattress in the new house like?
(a) It was brand new.
(b) It was filthy and covered with mold.
(c) It was very comfortable.
(d) It smelled like damp hair.

5. What did Malan look like?
(a) A troubadour.
(b) An Arab.
(c) The stereotypical Frenchman.
(d) A Chinese man.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Jacques feel about going back to Algiers?

2. How did the man travel?

3. Who was standing in the corridor of the Saint-Brieuc train 40 years after Henri and Lucie had their child?

4. Where did the traveler walk to when he left his hotel?

5. How does Malan describe Jacques?

(see the answer key)

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