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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II - Cosette.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whom does Jean Valjean rescue in Part I – Fantine by lifting him from underneath a fallen carriage?
(a) Tholomyes.
(b) Fauchelevent.
(c) Bahorel.
(d) Gavroche.

2. What is the largest industry in Montreuil, according to the narrator in Part I – Fantine?
(a) Black beads.
(b) Ship lumber.
(c) Coal.
(d) House lumber.

3. What is the title of Book VIII of Part I – Fantine?
(a) “The Grand Bourgeois.”
(b) “The Ship Orion.”
(c) “The Excellence of Misfortune.”
(d) “A Counter-Blow.”

4. What is the title of Book III in Part I – Fantine?
(a) “In the Year 1817.”
(b) “Cemeteries Take What is Given Them.”
(c) “Paris Atomized.”
(d) “To Trust is Sometimes to Surrender.”

5. Fauchelevent tells Valjean that he and Cosette are in the garden of what convent in Book V of Part II – Cosette?
(a) Saint-Germain.
(b) Patron-Minette.
(c) Petit-Picpus.
(d) Gorbeau House.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many years have passed since Jean Valjean’s first encounter with M. Myriel in Book III of Part I – Fantine?

2. What is the title of Book VIII of Part II – Cosette?

3. What is the title of Book IV of Part I – Fantine?

4. In Book II of Part II – Cosette, newspaper articles suggest that Jean Valjean withdrew how many francs just before his arrest?

5. What are the names of the Thénardiers’ two daughters whom they spoil?

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