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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 commission does the Baron get for Lisbeth's admirer?
(a) A clock for the prince.
(b) A statue of Marshal Montcornet.
(c) A group for Monsieur Crevel.
(d) A statue of Napoleon.

2. What happens just as Lisbeth is about to set up her own business?
(a) The empire collapses.
(b) She becomes gravely ill.
(c) She goes bankrupt.
(d) She accepts a marriage proposal.

3. For how long does Monsieur Crevel estimate that the Baroness will remain beautiful?
(a) Five years.
(b) A lifetime.
(c) Fifteen years.
(d) Ten years.

4. What does Lisbeth surmise as the cause of her admirer's failed suicide attempt?
(a) Poverty.
(b) Loneliness.
(c) A broken heart.
(d) Patriotism.

5. What word means animal of the rocks or chamois?
(a) Crevel.
(b) Hulot.
(c) Steinbock.
(d) Rocamadour.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what major event do the beginnings of Monsieur Hulot's infidelities coincide?

2. What does Monsieur Crevel suggest that Madame Hulot do to obtain a dowry for her daughter?

3. How long has Monsieur Crevel been a widower?

4. Why has the Baroness' brother-in-law never married?

5. The author dedicates the novel to a scholar who studies which writer?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does Monsieur Grasset take Wenceslas? Why does this happen to the young artist?

2. Whom does Wenceslas see when he returns home? Whom does he say has purchased his bronze group and offered him work?

3. What plan do Lisbeth and Hortense agree upon to help out Lisbeth's admirer? Who accompanies Hortense on this mission? Whom does her escort take notice of during this venture?

4. What solution does Monsieur Crevel propose to the Baroness for the problem of Hortense's dowry? What other options does he tell her she has available to her?

5. Who is Valerie Marneffe's father? Why does she inherit nothing upon his death?

6. How does Lisbeth meet Wenceslas in the first place? What is the relationship between them after this first meeting?

7. Where does the Baron go after he finds the opera to be closed? What does he learn when he arrives there?

8. How does Lisbeth describe her relationship with Wenceslas to Valerie Marneffe? What proof of his connection to Hortense does Valerie show to Lisbeth?

9. After Wenceslas sells his bronze group, who comes to visit Lisbeth at her flat? What is the purpose of this visit?

10. Who is the first character introduced in the novel? What information is surmised about his age? How is this information revealed?

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