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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many years have passed since Jean Valjean’s first encounter with M. Myriel in Book III of Part I – Fantine?
(a) 8.
(b) 2.
(c) 5.
(d) 9.

2. What is the name of the police inspector who acts as a nemesis to Jean Valjean throughout Les Miserables?
(a) Feuilly.
(b) Bossuet.
(c) Enjolras.
(d) Javert.

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

4. 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?
(a) 1820.
(b) 1830.
(c) 1840.
(d) 1810.

5. Who was defeated at the Battle of Waterloo?
(a) Jean Casimir-Perier.
(b) Jules Grévy.
(c) Émile Loubet.
(d) Napoleon Bonaparte.

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

7. Who is the convict on the chain gang who saves the sailor from drowning on the Orion in Book II of Part II – Cosette?
(a) Enjolras.
(b) Gavroche.
(c) Theodule Gillenormand.
(d) Jean Valjean.

8. It is November of what year that a sailor on the Orion falls off one of the ship’s masts in Book II of Part II – Cosette?
(a) 1817.
(b) 1823.
(c) 1821.
(d) 1814.

9. What is the name of the boy from whom Jean Valjean steals a silver coin in Part I – Fantine?
(a) Felix Tholomyes.
(b) Petit Gervais.
(c) Georges Pontmercy.
(d) Enjolras.

10. Why was Jean Valjean’s prison sentence extended?
(a) For going on a hunger strike.
(b) For fighting.
(c) For talking back to the guards.
(d) For attempting escape.

11. Where in France does the novel begin in Book I of Part I – Fantine?
(a) Feuilly.
(b) Waterloo.
(c) Lyon.
(d) Digne.

12. The police inspector in Montreuil threatens Fantine with what jail sentence for attacking a man who insulted her in Part I – Fantine?
(a) 3 months.
(b) 1 month.
(c) 6 months.
(d) 8 months.

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

14. What is the name of Cosette’s father in the novel?
(a) Theodule Gillenormand.
(b) Felix Tholomyes.
(c) Jean Prouvaire.
(d) Marius Pontmercy.

15. The narrator says that Monsieur Madeleine arrived in Montreuil in what year in Book V of Part I – Fantine?
(a) 1822.
(b) 1830.
(c) 1818.
(d) 1815.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Book VI of Part I – Fantine, Javert claims that he has positively identified Champmathieu as Valjean and states that he is leaving for where to testify in the trial the following day?

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

3. What is the largest industry in Montreuil, according to the narrator in Part I – Fantine?

4. Fauchelevent tells the nuns that Jean Valjean is his brother named what in Book VIII of Part II – Cosette?

5. Jean Valjean held what profession before he was incarcerated?

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