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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 does Baron Hulot agree to provide for Valerie Marneffe's second child?
(a) The Hulot family name.
(b) Twelve hundred francs per year.
(c) A place to live.
(d) A job in government service when he reaches adulthood.

2. Where does Wenceslas tell Hortense he plans to go early the next morning following his dinner with Valerie?
(a) The War Ministry.
(b) The bank.
(c) Church.
(d) His studio.

3. What bad news does Johann Fischer communicate to Hector Hulot in a letter?
(a) A Public Prosecutor is investigating Hector and Johann's dealings in Algeria.
(b) Johann Fischer is terminally ill and does not have long to live.
(c) Johann Fischer has been left by his wife.
(d) The War Ministry has exhausted all of its funds in Algeria.

4. What news does Valerie reveal to Wenceslas in the first letter she writes to him?
(a) She is pregnant.
(b) She is moving into a new house.
(c) She is hosting a party.
(d) She is canceling her order.

5. What is happening when the arrival of the Baron Montes de Montejanos is announced?
(a) Valerie and Crevel are having an argument in her room.
(b) Guests are playing games in Valerie Marneffe's drawing-room.
(c) Valerie and Baron Hulot are sitting down to dinner.
(d) Valerie and Lisbeth are scheming to have the Marshal propose marriage to Bette.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Lisbeth control Valerie's potential household expenses?

2. How does Valerie explain her relationship to Montejanos?

3. When Hector Hulot returns home from Valerie's house after hearing of the problem between Wenceslas and Hortense, what does he discover Adeline doing?

4. Where does Valerie mention having seen Wenceslas in person before their first formal meeting in her house?

5. To which Shakespeare character does the narrator compare Montejanos, due to his physique and complexion?

Short Essay Questions

1. In whom does Hector confide his devastation about Valerie? What is this character's response?

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 does the regimental quartermaster from Algeria bring to Hector? What was he expecting the quartermaster to have brought him?

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

5. Whom does Hector ask to solve his compromising situation with the Marneffes? What does this character do to help the Baron?

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

7. 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?

8. What publication makes Lisbeth so happy? What event begins a chain of events that will end this happiness?

9. What post does Valerie ask Hector to obtain for Marneffe? What complications does Hector face in carrying out this wish for his mistress?

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

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