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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 animal does Haniya see Armand as?

2. When does Professor Robinson give her lecture?

3. How many agents did Armand have brought in from regions nearby for Professor Robinson's lecture?

4. How is Debbie Schneider killed?

5. How did Haniya get her facial scars?

Short Essay Questions

1. What celebration did Three Pines have when the pandemic was officially declared to be over?

2. What does Professor Robinson think of Armand?

3. What project is Reine-Marie working on?

4. Who is Otto Pascal?

5. How does Robinson react when Colette suggests that Schneider was killed by someone who wanted to kill Robinson?

6. Who is Debbie Schneider, and how do she and Robinson know one another?

7. What does the sound tech tell Jean-Guy, when Jean-Guy interviews him?

8. Who stays to watch the bonfire as midnight approaches?

9. Why does Armand think Robinson is a catalyst?

10. What does a journalist say in Chapter 15 about Robinson's message?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

An allusion is a figure of speech that does not directly refer to a person, place, or thing. What are some allusions in The Madness of Crowds? Why might it be difficult to decipher an allusion just by the context of a passage in the book? Why might research be required to understand allusions?

Essay Topic 2

Ewen Cameron tortured patients he was supposed to treat. What did Cameron seem to assume about his patients? How did seeing them as inferior allow him to treat them like animals? Is his behavior and assumption of inferiority similar to what people assumed in Sudan when they treated Haniya and members of her ethnic group inhumanely?

Essay Topic 3

Vincent Gilbert worked for Ewen Cameron. What did Vincent’s attempt to destroy all records of his work with Cameron reveal about how he felt about working with Cameron? How and why does he attempt to justify his work with Cameron?

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