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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What main topic does Antoine discuss in Chapter 9?
(a) Geography.
(b) Politics.
(c) History.
(d) Psychology.

2. How did a man with different beliefs from those in his town intend to protect himself?
(a) Stay in hiding.
(b) Always be armed.
(c) Befriend spies.
(d) Make good friends.

3. What does Antoine say dirtied the people on the train?
(a) Idleness.
(b) Labor.
(c) Anger.
(d) Thought.

4. What kind of building does Antoine hate to see smoking from the air?
(a) Family houses.
(b) Schools.
(c) Churches.
(d) Cafes.

5. What does Antoine think most young girls dream about?
(a) Young men.
(b) Living somewhere new.
(c) Being like their parents.
(d) Flying.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who were the Razzia?

2. What was the name of the man with Antoine when he crash landed in the desert?

3. What did Antoine fear the two girls at the first oasis would do to him?

4. What sound did Antoine hear just before he was rescued?

5. Whose experience gave Antoine hope after his crash landing?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Antoine say the people on the train have sacrificed to bureaucracy?

2. What made Antoine know his survival in the desert was worth the effort?

3. What caused the sergeant that Antoine met to join the war?

4. How has the need for labor changed the people on the train?

5. How did Mohammed differ from the other slaves Antoine had seen in the desert?

6. To what does Antoine compare himself at the end of the book?

7. How does Antoine describe the child he sees on the train?

8. What does Antoine curse at the end of the book, and why?

9. What did Antoine do with all of his money while walking through a desert village one day?

10. To what does Antoine compare the people on the train?

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