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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. Which character is dissatisfied with his dining experience at the Trois-Frères-Provençaux?
(a) Frederic.
(b) Deslauriers.
(c) Arnoux.
(d) Regimbart.

2. What is the name of the man that Frederic meets on the ship?
(a) Roque Deslauriers.
(b) Jacques Arnoux.
(c) Charles Deslauriers.
(d) Jacques Montmartre.

3. In what year does the novel begin?
(a) 1770.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1840.
(d) 1860.

4. To whom is the IOU payable that Arnoux forces his wife to sign?
(a) Frederic.
(b) Monsieur Dambreuse.
(c) Monsieur Roque.
(d) Hussonet.

5. Frederic is worried about his appearance as he goes to visit Dambreuse until he remembers which fact about him?
(a) He is a member of the working class.
(b) He will not be home.
(c) He is blind.
(d) He is just a bourgeois.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Frederic see accompanying Jacques Arnoux at the Alhambra?

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

3. To whom does Frederic suggest the portrait he commissions be given?

4. Why does Frederic stop attending class after only two weeks?

5. Who was Frederic hoping to get a look at during his meeting with Dambreuse?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Pellerin do for a living? What type of books does he read? What is the secret he is trying to discover? Why?

2. What work does Charles Deslauriers do for his father? What unusual physical feature is a result of this work?

3. Who is the host of the costume party to which Arnoux brings Frederic? What is this person's relationship to Arnoux?

4. 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?

5. From whom does Madame Moreau borrow money? How does she pay off this debt? How does this affect Frederic's future?

6. Whom does Frederic see when he opens the door to the first class section? What is his impression of this person?

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

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

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

10. What business proposition do Hussonet and Deslauriers bring to Frederic? How does Frederic respond?

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