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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 3 and 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is the restaurant located in which Frederic dines daily at a cost of only forty-three sous?
(a) The Tuileries.
(b) Ronde-Point.
(c) The Champs-Elysées.
(d) Rue de la Harpe.

2. Who is the author of this novel?
(a) Victor Hugo.
(b) Gustave Flaubert.
(c) Frederic Moreau.
(d) Honore Balzac.

3. What become his principle interests after Deslauriers loses interest in metaphysics?
(a) Aesthetics and Ancient Greece.
(b) Economics and the French Revolution.
(c) Reconstruction and the American Revolution.
(d) Psychoanalysis and the Bolshevik Revolution.

4. What insult is thrown at Deslauriers that started the schoolyard fight that begins his friendship with Frederic?
(a) Rich boy.
(b) Rat.
(c) Beggar's brat.
(d) Big boy.

5. What is Professor Samuel Rondelot's area of academic specialty?
(a) Music.
(b) Medicine.
(c) Law.
(d) Literature.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year does the novel begin?

2. How does Dambreuse indicate to Frederic that their meeting has ended?

3. Where does Frederic speculate that the beautiful woman may have come from?

4. What is the name of the man that Frederic meets on the ship?

5. What quality does Frederic most value in terms of his literary taste?

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