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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 is the title of Book II of Part III – Marius?
(a) “The Grand Bourgeois.”
(b) “A Dark Chase Requires a Silent Hound.”
(c) “Cemeteries Take What is Given Them.”
(d) “The Grandfather and the Grandson.”

2. Whom does Gavroche overhear worrying about his finances in Book IV of Part IV – Saint Denis?
(a) Felix Tholomyes.
(b) Father Mabeuf.
(c) Monsieur Gillenormand.
(d) Monsieur Thenardier.

3. What is the title of Book II in Part IV – Saint Denis?
(a) “Argot.”
(b) “Little Gavroche.”
(c) “Eponine.”
(d) “The Noxious Poor.”

4. The Thénardiers force Valjean to write a note summoning whom to the apartment in Book VIII of Part III – Marius?
(a) Grantaire.
(b) Combeferre.
(c) Cosette.
(d) Eponine.

5. Before he learns Cosette’s name, Marius refers to her as what nickname in Part III – Marius?
(a) Azelma.
(b) Lanoire.
(c) Madeleine.
(d) Epinone.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is written on the message that Marius hurls through the window in Book VIII of Part III – Marius?

2. Gavroche pickpockets the thief who took Jean Valjean’s money and he throws it over whose wall in Book IV of Part IV – Saint Denis?

3. What nickname does Courfeyrac dub Jean Valjean prior to meeting him in Part III – Marius?

4. Marius Pontmercy’s father was a colonel in whose army?

5. The street urchin named Gavroche in Part III – Marius is actually whose son?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Marius learn about his father from Mabeuf in Book III of Part III – Marius? How does this information affect Marius?

2. What historical event is described in Book I of Part IV – Saint Denis? What consequences of this event does the narrator point out?

3. How is the outbreak of the June Rebellion described in Book X of Part IV – Saint Denis?

4. What does Marius think about Cosette after finding what he believes to be her handkerchief in Book VI of Part III – Marius?

5. What exchange takes place between Marius and Monsieur Gillenormand in Book VIII of Part IV – Saint Denis?

6. What information does Eponine leak to Marius about Cosette in Book II of Part IV – Saint Denis?

7. How does Gavroche help the revolutionaries in Book X of Part IV – Saint Denis?

8. What internal conflict does Marius face in Book VIII of Part III – Marius? How is the conflict resolved?

9. What attack does Gavroche witness in Book IV of Part IV – Saint Denis? What is the outcome of the conflict?

10. What is the “Patron-Minette” and who comprises this group?

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