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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Third Notebook, The First Cavale.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color predominates the courtroom in which Papillon is tried?
(a) Red.
(b) Blue.
(c) Green.
(d) Black.

2. What is a plan?
(a) An escape strategy.
(b) A configuration of cells.
(c) Menus for a week.
(d) A tube of money stored in the anus.

3. How does Papillon utilize a younger prisoner with a feminine appearance?
(a) To distract the other prisoners.
(b) To crawl through a small space.
(c) To seduce a guard.
(d) To hide his plan.

4. From whom does Papillon receive a note in "En Route to the Bagne"?
(a) Chevalier.
(b) Brun.
(c) Boucher.
(d) Batton.

5. What is the reason for gunfire in the middle of the night at the bagne?
(a) Julot has escaped.
(b) A guard is torturing a prisoner.
(c) Three men are caught trying to scale the prison wall.
(d) Girard faces a firing squad.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is stuck to the bowl that the leper, Toussaint, hands to Papillon?

2. Papillon learns that the convoy to which prison will leave in two days?

3. What does the Bowen family tell the escapees about Trinidad?

4. What does Papillon realize about the boat to be used in the escape?

5. Who is the inmate with whom Papillon becomes a friend?

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