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12 questions
  1. "The Last Lesson" was written by —
    1. Guy de Maupassant
    2. Alphonse Daudet
    3. Victor Hugo
    4. Anton Chekhov
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    Answer: (B) Alphonse Daudet

    It is Daudet’s story from Contes du lundi (1873).

  2. The story is set in —
    1. Paris
    2. Alsace
    3. Normandy
    4. Berlin
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    Answer: (B) Alsace

    Alsace, which passed to Germany after the Franco-Prussian War.

  3. The order to teach only German came from —
    1. Paris
    2. Berlin
    3. Vienna
    4. the village mayor
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    Answer: (B) Berlin

    The order came from Berlin after the French defeat.

  4. Why was Franz afraid of going to school that morning?
    1. He had broken a window
    2. He had not learned the rule for participles
    3. He had lost his books
    4. He was ill
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    Answer: (B) He had not learned the rule for participles

    M. Hamel had said he would question them on participles.

  5. What was unusual about M. Hamel’s dress that day?
    1. He wore his oldest clothes
    2. He wore his green coat and silk embroidered cap
    3. He wore a soldier’s uniform
    4. He wore no coat at all
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    Answer: (B) He wore his green coat and silk embroidered cap

    He wore the clothes kept for inspection and prize days.

  6. Who were sitting on the back benches?
    1. New pupils
    2. Village elders including old Hauser
    3. Prussian soldiers
    4. The children’s mothers
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    Answer: (B) Village elders including old Hauser

    Old Hauser, the former mayor and the former postmaster had come to the last lesson.

  7. M. Hamel said that French was —
    1. difficult but necessary
    2. the most beautiful, clearest and most logical language
    3. less useful than German
    4. a dying language
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    Answer: (B) the most beautiful, clearest and most logical language

    He urged them to guard it and never forget it.

  8. According to M. Hamel, what is like holding "the key to their prison"?
    1. Keeping their money
    2. Holding fast to their language
    3. Obeying the new rulers
    4. Leaving the province
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    Answer: (B) Holding fast to their language

    A people who keep their language are never completely enslaved.

  9. What was written in the new copies given for the writing lesson?
    1. Liberty, Equality
    2. France, Alsace
    3. Vive La France
    4. Alsace Forever
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    Answer: (B) France, Alsace

    They hung from the desk rods like little flags.

  10. Whom did M. Hamel blame for the children’s poor French?
    1. Only the children
    2. The parents, the children and himself
    3. The Prussians
    4. The village mayor
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    Answer: (B) The parents, the children and himself

    He spread the blame, including on himself for giving holidays.

  11. What did Franz wonder about the pigeons on the roof?
    1. Whether they would fly away
    2. Whether they would be made to sing in German
    3. Whether they were hungry
    4. Whether they would be shot
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    Answer: (B) Whether they would be made to sing in German

    A child’s question that quietly exposes the absurdity of the order.

  12. How does the story end?
    1. M. Hamel makes a long speech
    2. He writes "Vive La France!" on the blackboard
    3. The soldiers enter the classroom
    4. Franz runs away
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    Answer: (B) He writes "Vive La France!" on the blackboard

    He cannot speak, so he writes two words in chalk and dismisses the class with a gesture.

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