1. Choose the option that most appropriately fills in the blanks, for the following description of the given extract.
The villagers and their children sat in the class, forging with their old master a (i) ......... togetherness.
In that moment, the class room stood (ii) ........ . It was France itself and the last French lesson a desperate hope to (iii) ......... to the remnants of what they had known and taken for granted their own (iv)......... .

2. Why does the narrator refer to M. Hamel as 'poor man'?

3. Choose the option that might raise a question about M. Hamel's 'faithful service'.

4. Which of the following idioms might describe the villagers' act of attending the last lesson most accurately?