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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. How were Jacques and his father similar?

2. What did the children do in their meeting place?

3. How did the man travel?

4. Why didn't Jacques' grandmother want him to play soccer?

5. What did Malan think about marriage?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Henri and Lucie leave Algiers?

2. What memory of his father did Jacques receive from his grandmother?

3. Why was soccer an issue in the household?

4. How did Lucie react to the situation she was in?

5. What parenting experience did Henri and Lucie have?

6. What was the journey like on the way to the new house?

7. How did Jacques perceive the relationship between his mother and father?

8. Lucie lived in the same place where Jacques grew up. What was still the same about it, and what was different?

9. What did the way Jacques demonstrate about his personality?

10. How did Lucie feel about the war her husband died in?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the differences between Malan's love for Jacques and Jacques' love for Malan? How do they deal with the difference?

Essay Topic 2

Describe what Jacques discovered when he went back to the town of his birth. What was the political situation? What did he learn about his father? How did the visit change him?

Essay Topic 3

There was a shift in roles as Jacques stood by the grave and realized his father was younger than he when he died. Describe how he felt about his father at this point, and explain how it was that Henri was viewed more as a child and Jacques more as the father.

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