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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Fantine is fired from her job at the factory for what reason in Book V of Part I – Fantine?
(a) Telling a customer off.
(b) Calling in sick.
(c) Immorality.
(d) Stealing.

2. In Book II of Part II – Cosette, newspaper articles suggest that Jean Valjean withdrew how many francs just before his arrest?
(a) 425,000.
(b) 159,000.
(c) 700,000.
(d) 1,300,000.

3. What is the title of Book II of Part II – Cosette?
(a) “The Ship Orion.”
(b) “The Grand Bourgeois.”
(c) “Paris Atomized.”
(d) “The Excellence of Misfortune.”

4. By what name does Fauchelevent address Jean Valjean when he first meets him in Book V of Part II – Cosette?
(a) Monsieur Gillenormand.
(b) Monsieur Thenardier.
(c) Monsieur Madeleine.
(d) Monsieur Mabeuf.

5. Who is Cosette’s mother in the novel?
(a) Madame Thenardier.
(b) Madame Magloire.
(c) Fantine.
(d) Eponine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the police inspector who acts as a nemesis to Jean Valjean throughout Les Miserables?

2. What is the title of Book V of Part I – Fantine?

3. By what year does the narrator say in Book VII of Part II – Cosette that there are no new recruits and the nuns of the convent begin to die off?

4. Whom does Fantine beg to look after her daughter as she seeks work in Part I – Fantine?

5. On what date was the Battle of Waterloo fought?

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