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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 is the name of the beautiful woman's daughter?
(a) Mademoiselle Mirabella.
(b) Mademoiselle Marie.
(c) Mademoiselle Marthe.
(d) Mademoiselle Margueritte.

2. Why does Sénécal lose his job for the third time?
(a) He refuses to teach religious education because he is an atheist.
(b) He refuses to teach art because it is not analytical.
(c) He refuses to give prizes because they are elitist.
(d) He refuses to give grades because they are meaningless.

3. How old is Frederic at the beginning of the novel?
(a) 16 years old.
(b) 40 years old.
(c) 20 years old.
(d) 18 years old.

4. Where does Frederic run into the Dambreuses at the end of Chapter 5?
(a) The Porte-Saint-Martin theatre.
(b) Marie Arnoux's party.
(c) L'Art Industriel.
(d) The Alhambra.

5. To whom does Frederic suggest the portrait he commissions be given?
(a) Delmar.
(b) Oudry.
(c) Dambreuse.
(d) Arnoux.

Short Answer Questions

1. Under what pretense does Frederic visit Dambreuse in Chapter 3?

2. What become his principle interests after Deslauriers loses interest in metaphysics?

3. What is the name of the ship on which Frederic travels?

4. What news does Frederic receive that leads him to return to Paris?

5. Why does Regimbart like to visit cafés and billiard saloons?

Short Essay Questions

1. What situation precludes Frederic and Deslauriers from realizing their plans together? What is Frederic's reaction to his news?

2. What is Deslauriers' reaction to Frederic's love for Madame Arnoux? What is Deslauriers' opinion of Marie Arnoux when he sees her in the Law Courts?

3. What does Hussonet do for a living? What is his professional ambition? What has he done to pursue this dream?

4. How does the narrator describe the other people traveling on the ship with Frederic? What do they wear? What are their spirits?

5. What are some of Frederic's artistic ambitions? What art has he already produced at this point?

6. How does the narrator describe Monsieur Dambreuse in Chapter 3? What does he look like? How does he interact with Frederic during their meeting?

7. What is Sénécal's objection to Jacques Arnoux in Chapter 5? What does Sénecal believe the purpose of art to be?

8. Whom does Frederic immediately go to visit when he hears that Jacques Arnoux has gone to Germany? What surprise is waiting for him? Where is the person he was looking for?

9. What are Jacques and Marie Arnoux arguing about when Frederic arrives? How does witnessing this argument affect Frederic's feelings for Marie?

10. Which of Frederic's friends are invited to his housewarming party? What is their opinion of his new lifestyle?

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