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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the Thénardiers’ baby boy in Book III of Part II – Cosette?
(a) Combeferre.
(b) Enjolras.
(c) Gavroche.
(d) Javert.

2. What is Charles Myriel’s position within the Church in Part I – Fantine?
(a) He is a Cardinal.
(b) He is a priest.
(c) He is a Pope.
(d) He is a Bishop.

3. Fauchelevent believes that Valjean is hiding from whom in Book VIII of Part II – Cosette?
(a) Creditors.
(b) His family.
(c) Javert.
(d) Beggars.

4. Jean Valjean tells the landlady at the Gorbeau House that Cosette is what in Book II of Part II – Cosette?
(a) His daughter.
(b) His aunt.
(c) His niece.
(d) His granddaughter.

5. What is the title of Book V of Part II – Cosette?
(a) “The Ship Orion.”
(b) “The Grand Bourgeois.”
(c) “A Dark Chase Requires a Silent Hound.”
(d) “The Excellence of Misfortune.”

6. What nation was victorious at the Battle of Waterloo?
(a) France.
(b) The United States.
(c) Brazil.
(d) Great Britain.

7. What is the name of the old road-mender seen digging holes in the forest in Montfermeil in Book II of Part II – Cosette?
(a) Javert.
(b) Gavroche.
(c) Joly.
(d) Boulatruelle.

8. Fauchelevent tells the nuns that Jean Valjean is his brother named what in Book VIII of Part II – Cosette?
(a) Courfeyrac.
(b) Javert.
(c) Bahorel.
(d) Ultimus.

9. Charles Myriel was forced to flee Italy during the French Revolution of what year?
(a) 1699.
(b) 1814.
(c) 1789.
(d) 1755.

10. What is the name of Fantine’s daughter in Part I – Fantine?
(a) Cosette.
(b) Mademoiselle Baptistine.
(c) Eponine.
(d) Mademoiselle Gillenormand.

11. What are the names of the Thénardiers’ two daughters whom they spoil?
(a) Cosette and Fantine.
(b) Fantine and Eponine.
(c) Eponine and Azelma.
(d) Azelma and Cosette.

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

13. How old is Cosette when she is introduced in Book III of Part II – Cosette?
(a) 8.
(b) 16.
(c) 4.
(d) 11.

14. Monasticism, the narrator claims in Book VII of Part II – Cosette, leads only to social isolation and what?
(a) Greed.
(b) Lack of education.
(c) Religious fanaticism.
(d) Sexual impropriety.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Book III in Part I – Fantine?

2. To how many years in prison was Jean Valjean initially sentenced for stealing a loaf of bread?

3. What is the name of the boy from whom Jean Valjean steals a silver coin in Part I – Fantine?

4. The Orion is a warship that is said to be docked where in Book II of Part II – Cosette?

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

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