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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 complaint does Lisbeth have when the Baron goes to her flat looking for Valerie?
(a) Indigestion.
(b) Depression.
(c) A toothache.
(d) A migraine.

2. To which Shakespeare character does the narrator compare Montejanos, due to his physique and complexion?
(a) Macbeth.
(b) Hamlet.
(c) Othello.
(d) Romeo.

3. When the quartermaster arrives to speak privately with Hector, what does he expect the man has brought for him?
(a) Money from Algeria.
(b) A letter from Johann Fischer.
(c) A new uniform.
(d) News from the Prince of Wissembourg.

4. With whom does Wenceslas claim to be dining while he is at Valerie Marneffe's house?
(a) Stidman and Wissembourg.
(b) Vignon and Vauvinet.
(c) Hulot and Crevel.
(d) Chanor and Florent.

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) Montejanos and Steinbock.
(b) Lisbeth and Hulot.
(c) Hulot and Steinbock.
(d) Montejanos and Lisbeth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What book does Adeline read constantly after being banished to her apartment on the Rue Plumet?

2. Who intercepts the letter that Valerie writes to Wenceslas?

3. What proof of Wenceslas' infidelity does Hortense receive?

4. Why does Valerie want Baron Hulot to bring Wenceslas to dine with them?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What plan does Adeline conceive to save her uncle? What is the outcome?

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. 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?

9. Besides the news of the embezzlement scheme in the newspaper, what other news item is featured in the Revue des Beaux-Arts? What is Hortense's reaction to this item?

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

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