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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Minuet by Guy de Maupassant.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Julian's wife convince him to do?
(a) Have a son.
(b) Find his parents.
(c) Kill her father, the Emperor.
(d) Hunt.

2. What is laying on the grass next to the boy behind the iron gate?
(a) His nanny.
(b) A dead bird.
(c) A magnificent toy.
(d) A beautiful dog.

3. What is the little boy who is laying in the grass looking at?
(a) A bird flying in the sky.
(b) A beggar pulling a cart.
(c) A slave working in the garden.
(d) A poor boy on the other side of the gate.

4. How tall is Micromegas?
(a) 120 feet tall.
(b) 12 feet tall.
(c) 1,200 feet tall.
(d) 120,000 feet tall.

5. What is Jean Bridelle's most cherished pleasure?
(a) Noisy cafes.
(b) To walk alone.
(c) Stupid girls.
(d) Brawling friends.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jean Bridelle compare the borders of small trees to?

2. What nationality was Voltaire?

3. Who pays for the masses that Desplein attends?

4. Who tells Julian's father of the prophecy of his son?

5. According to Jean Bridelle, in the beginning of "Minuet", what has he seen at close range?

(see the answer key)

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