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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 does the person in the tent ask to see from Crismus?
(a) The two Gauls.
(b) Crismus' ears.
(c) His pillow.
(d) Crismus' boots.

2. What does Crismus offer as an explanation to the person in the tent?
(a) He was busy chasing two Gauls.
(b) He did not hear him come.
(c) He was feeling insecure.
(d) He overslept.

3. Who does Asterix overhear secretly plotting to overthrow Caesar and establish a triumvirate?
(a) Obelix and Marcus.
(b) Crismus Bonus and Marcus Ginantonicus.
(c) Getafix and Odenix.
(d) Angus and Salinus.

4. What does the trick on the Romans involve?
(a) The cart seller's deceit.
(b) Crismus' crying.
(c) Asterix's cunning.
(d) Getafix's magic.

5. When the messenger carries the ingredient to Getafix, what does Getafix do?
(a) Cooks it.
(b) Throws it away.
(c) Eats it.
(d) Hides it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Getafix make for Asterix?

2. Who do the Romans give the concoction to?

3. Who plots against Caesar?

4. While the messengers are gone in search of the ingredients, what do Asterix and Getafix joke about?

5. What does the cart seller do to the volunteer?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Crismus over-confident?

2. How does the cart seller respond to Asterix's capture?

3. What are Crimus Bonus and Marcus Ginantonicus plotting?

4. Why is Caesar not impressed with Crismus?

5. What makes Crismus furious with Asterix and Getaflix?

6. What is funny about Asterix's behavior when the torturer arrives and what does it signify?

7. Why does Crismus Bonus cry?

8. How does the audience receive the lesson or message that "wrong begets punishment" in the final section of the novel?

9. How does Asterix fool Crismus Bonus into thinking that he and Getaflix are at Crismus' mercy?

10. What are three instances that Crismus lies?

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