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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 gives money to Adeline's cook so that she may provide a meal for the family?
(a) Monsieur Crevel.
(b) Victorin Hulot.
(c) Baron Hulot.
(d) Marshal Hulot.

2. How does Lisbeth control Valerie's potential household expenses?
(a) She encourages Valerie to dine out instead of hosting dinners at home.
(b) She contributes the profits from her embroidery work to the household budget.
(c) She finds her a cook from Vosges and accompanies her to the market.
(d) She does the cooking and washing herself.

3. What significant change to his appearance does Valerie induce Baron Hulot to make?
(a) He stops wearing his military uniform.
(b) He loses weight.
(c) He shaves off his beard.
(d) He stops dying his hair.

4. How does Valerie explain her relationship to Montejanos?
(a) She pretends she has never met him.
(b) She claims he is Monsieur Marneffe's nephew.
(c) She explains that they had been lovers.
(d) She claims they are cousins.

5. When Crevel goes to Valerie's flat the morning after his revelation to Hulot, whom does he find at the breakfast table with her?
(a) Lisbeth and Hulot.
(b) Hulot and Steinbock.
(c) Montejanos and Steinbock.
(d) Montejanos and Lisbeth.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Adeline attempt to console Hortense after her first quarrel with Wenceslas?

2. Who is the third man to whom Valerie Marneffe tells he is going to be the father of her child?

3. What news does Valerie reveal to Wenceslas in the first letter she writes to him?

4. After Hector receives bad news from Johann Fischer, what bad news does he receive from Valerie in a letter?

5. What piece of art created by Wenceslas is generating extreme criticism from his fellow artists, including Stidman?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Hector goes to visit Valerie after he receives her letter? How does he receive a message from her and what is communicated?

2. After their initial clandestine meetings, what message does Hector receive in the form of a letter from Valerie? What reason does she give for a change of plans? What is the real reason?

3. What problem with her husband does Valerie alert Hector to in a letter? What solution does she suggest to this predicament? How does Hector respond to this suggestion?

4. When he returns home after speaking to Valerie about the impossibility of Marneffe's promotion, what does Hector catch Adeline doing? With what intention did he return to his family that evening?

5. What news is in the letter to Wenceslas from Valerie? What plan does she concoct for the interception of the letter and why?

6. Who interrupts Valerie and Hector during their clandestine meeting in Crevel's love nest? By whom is this character accompanied? What does this character tell the Baron about Valerie Marneffe and her husband?

7. How does Valerie use her pregnancy to benefit financially and socially? Which men are affected by this news?

8. In his letter to the Baron, what does Johann Fischer ask for? What is his plan if Hector cannot help him?

9. What are the three beauty spots that Valerie Marneffe arranges for her first meeting with Wenceslas? What is Wenceslas' impression of Valerie?

10. What has happened to Wenceslas professionally in the three years since he has married Hortense? To what is this change attributed?

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