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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did people think about Ernest?
(a) He was a recluse.
(b) He was mean.
(c) He was stupid.
(d) He was good-natured and generous.

2. What gift did the teacher give the older Jacques?
(a) A handkerchief.
(b) The book he had read in class.
(c) The ruler he used to smack the children with.
(d) Some money.

3. What did the uncle and grandmother say Jacques had?
(a) Tenacity.
(b) Pride.
(c) Fear.
(d) Courage.

4. What did the farmer do?
(a) He went out to care for his vines.
(b) He rescued his animals.
(c) He dug up his vine and empties his vats.
(d) He offered his wine to the guerillas.

5. Who tried to protect the chickens from thieves?
(a) The grandmother.
(b) The barber.
(c) Jacques.
(d) The Arab next door.

6. How did Louis feel about getting a hen from the yard?
(a) He thought it was fun to chase the hens.
(b) He was afraid of the hens.
(c) He dreaded it.
(d) He refused to do it.

7. What separated the two worlds in Jacques?
(a) The Mediterranean.
(b) Transportation limitations.
(c) Memories.
(d) The cultures.

8. What did Jacques dread each day when he went home from the lycee?
(a) His grandmother's beatings.
(b) Death and the unknown.
(c) The silence in the house.
(d) Dinner.

9. What did Jacques ask Veillard about?
(a) His father.
(b) Farming.
(c) Religion
(d) Education.

10. Who was the common enemy in the neighborhood?
(a) The school teacher.
(b) The police.
(c) The gang from the next neighborhood.
(d) The dogcatcher.

11. How did Tamzal feel about war?
(a) He abhorred it.
(b) He thought is was something everyone should engage in.
(c) He felt it was more normal than peace.
(d) He thought war was a strange beast.

12. What did Jacques have to give up to be friends with Georges?
(a) His sandwich at lunchtime.
(b) Eating meat.
(c) His love of reading.
(d) Saying dirty words.

13. What book did the teacher read to the students?
(a) McGuffey's Reader.
(b) A book on etiquette.
(c) The Holy Bible.
(d) A book about World War I.

14. What was the journey like for the original settlers?
(a) Very tough and unsanitary.
(b) Happy as they looked toward their new adventures.
(c) Scary as they faced the unknown.
(d) Smooth. The people in the new country helped them.

15. What element of nature did Jacques truly appreciate?
(a) The rain.
(b) The snow.
(c) The wind.
(d) The sun.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened when Jacques told his mother and grandmother that he had a chance at getting a higher education?

2. Why did Jacques and Pierre have to leave their neighborhood on a daily basis?

3. What happened to Jacques at the cooperage?

4. Who was the old man with the canary that Jacques went to visit?

5. What did Jacques help Michel with?

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