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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Asterix and Getafix leave the tent, who arrives soon after?
(a) Roman reinforcements.
(b) Marcus Aurelius.
(c) Caesar, the emperor.
(d) Obelix, their friend.

2. What does Crismus Bonus do when he learns about Asterix's arrival at the tent?
(a) Plans his attack.
(b) Paces up and down.
(c) Starts laughing.
(d) Sounds the alarm.

3. What does Asterix tell the cart seller he must wait for so the joke will be funnier?
(a) Dawn.
(b) Guards.
(c) Rain.
(d) Night.

4. Who does Asterix secretly go in search of inside the city?
(a) Getafix.
(b) Obelix.
(c) Crismus.
(d) Centurion.

5. When Crismus Bonus demands that Asterix surrender, what does Asterix do?
(a) He approaches Crismus and grabs him by the hair, dragging him through the streets.
(b) He begins to swell up in size till he is the size of a mountain and attacks the soldiers.
(c) He exits the tent, throws his arms at Crismus Bonus' feet, and says he surrenders.
(d) He opens his mouth and starts to blow, building a storm that blows away the army.

6. How does Getafix calm down Crismus?
(a) By promising to find the ingredient himself.
(b) By promising to never fight with him.
(c) By promising to succeed no matter what.
(d) By promising to make the potion anyway.

7. Who is released temporarily at the end of Section 4?
(a) Greeks.
(b) Romans.
(c) Gauls.
(d) Scots.

8. What is Crismus overly confident about regarding Asterix?
(a) That he will fight again.
(b) That he is weak.
(c) That he is defeated.
(d) That he is dead.

9. What is the message or lesson concerning the consequence given to the conspirators?
(a) Wrong begets wrong.
(b) Good is hard to come by.
(c) It is hard to define what is right or wrong.
(d) Wrong begets punishment.

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

11. What is the defeat of the Romans foreshadowed by?
(a) Collapse of the Colliseum.
(b) Creation of strength potion.
(c) Destruction of Centurion.
(d) Defeat of Marcus Aurelius.

12. What are Asterix and Getafix doing that infuriates Crismus when he goes to talk to them?
(a) Laughing belly laughs.
(b) Drinking beer.
(c) Playing a game of poker.
(d) Counting Romans with beards.

13. Who escorts Asterix and Getafix into the woods to find a cure?
(a) Obelix.
(b) Roman guards.
(c) Crismus.
(d) Marcus.

14. What does Caesar say about Asterix and Getafix?
(a) He will meet them again.
(b) He forgives their trespasses.
(c) He loves them unconditionally.
(d) He considers them heroes.

15. What does Asterix's release foreshadow for Asterix in the future?
(a) Repetition.
(b) More adventures.
(c) A new beginning.
(d) Death.

Short Answer Questions

1. What will the messenger receive in return for his work of finding the missing ingredient?

2. Who do the Gauls give the antidote to?

3. What is the ingredient that Getafix tells Crismus is missing?

4. What does Crismus Bonus demand that Asterix give him the following morning?

5. Who do the Romans give the concoction to?

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