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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is the title of Book I in Part I – Fantine?
(a) “In the Year 1817.”
(b) “The Descent.”
(c) “To Trust is Sometimes to Surrender.”
(d) “A Just Man.”

4. 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) 1823.
(b) 1817.
(c) 1821.
(d) 1814.

5. What holiday is it when Cosette is introduced in Book III of Part II – Cosette?
(a) Easter Sunday.
(b) Christmas Eve.
(c) Halloween.
(d) New Year's Eve.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the second thing that Fantine sells in order to make money when she becomes desperate after losing her job at the factory?

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

3. Fauchelevent believes that Valjean is hiding from whom in Book VIII of Part II – Cosette?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Jean Valjean escape from the dead-end alleyway in Book V of Part II – Cosette?

2. How does Jean Valjean succeed in rescuing Cosette in Book III of Part II – Cosette?

3. What information is related from the character named Boulatruelle in Book II of Part II – Cosette?

4. Where does Cosette meet Jean Valjean in Book III of Part II – Cosette? What are her impressions of him?

5. How does Jean Valjean respond to the advice of Bishop Myriel in Book II of Part I – Fantine? Where do his actions lead him?

6. What does Bishop Myriel impress upon Jean Valjean when he gives him the candlesticks in Book II of Part I – Fantine? How does Valjean react?

7. From what narrative point of view is Les Miserables related? What are the characteristics of this narrative style?

8. How has Jean Valjean changed after he’s been out of prison for two years in Part I – Fantine? How does Jean Valjean first encounter Fantine?

9. How is the history of Petit-Picpus described in Book VI of Part II – Cosette?

10. What internal conflict does Jean Valjean face in Book VI of Part I – Fantine? How does he resolve the conflict?

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