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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. Who did the boy who is scheduled to be executed once work for?
(a) Cardinal Spada.
(b) Villefort.
(c) Luigi Vampa.
(d) The Count of Monte Cristo.

2. What city does Dantès visit after getting his passport?
(a) Edinburgh.
(b) Marseilles.
(c) London.
(d) Rome.

3. How did Fernand become a Count?
(a) He was willed the title when his father died.
(b) He was promoted in the military.
(c) He married a countess.
(d) He bought his title.

4. Why will Mercédès not marry Fernand?
(a) She is too poor for him.
(b) She is too wealthy for him.
(c) She is in love with Dantès.
(d) She is too young for him.

5. How does Edmond intend to kill himself?
(a) Starving himself.
(b) Slitting his wrists.
(c) Hanging himself.
(d) Smashing his head with a rock.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Dantès move large rocks to get to the treasure?

2. Who is most afraid of the power of the Bonapartists?

3. Whom does Dantès deliver a letter to at the beginning of the book?

4. Why does Danglars hate Dantès?

5. Who gives Morrell's daughter the money Morrell needs?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Dantès get transportation to the nearest port after his escape?

2. Who does Noirtier plan to leave his inheritance to and why?

3. What does the Count hire two men on the street to do for him?

4. Why does Dantès decide to kill himself, and how does he intend to do this?

5. How does Faria die?

6. Why does the Count return the nicest horses in Paris? What does he do to make amends?

7. How does Peppino escape execution? Why has this been done?

8. What does Dantès do first when he gets to port? What is he so surprised about?

9. What does Villefort ask his father-in-law for after Dantès is arrested?

10. How does Dantès escape the prison?

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