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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the difference in age between Monsieur Crevel and Monsieur Hulot?
2. What does Monsieur Crevel suggest that Madame Hulot do to obtain a dowry for her daughter?
3. What is the significance of the name Mirah?
4. Why is cousin Bette not accepted in society?
5. Why is Madame Marneffe denied an inheritance?
Short Essay Questions
1. What proof does Lisbeth provide of the existence of her admirer? What does she receive from Hortense in exchange for this information?
2. What does Lisbeth tell Hortense and Adeline has happened to Wenceslas? How does Hortense react? How is Bette's lie discovered?
3. Who is Valerie Marneffe's father? Why does she inherit nothing upon his death?
4. Whom does Wenceslas see when he returns home? Whom does he say has purchased his bronze group and offered him work?
5. Whom does Hortense decide to marry? What is the relationship between Hortense's intended and Lisbeth? Why does Baron Hulot tell her that Cousin Bette will not be an obstacle to Hortense's intended marriage?
6. Where does the Baron go after he finds the opera to be closed? What does he learn when he arrives there?
7. What information about Wenceslas' professional life does Valerie give to Lisbeth? What information about Wenceslas' personal life does she give Lisbeth? How does Lisbeth react to this news?
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. How does Lisbeth meet Wenceslas in the first place? What is the relationship between them after this first meeting?
10. Describe Lisbeth. How old is she? How does she dress? How does this affect her social standing in comparison to her cousin, the Baroness?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is the significance of social class in Cousin Bette? How does this theme affect the relationship between the characters and advance the plot of the novel? Use specific examples from the text to support your answer.
Essay Topic 2
Money has a significant role throughout Cousin Bette. Give three examples from the novel in which money significantly alters the plot of the novel and directly affects the protagonist. How is money a characteristic of the Realist novel?
Essay Topic 3
Pride is a significant theme in Cousin Bette. What is the message conveyed about pride in this novel? Use specific examples from the text to support your answer.
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