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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which character is dissatisfied with his dining experience at the Trois-Frères-Provençaux?
(a) Frederic.
(b) Arnoux.
(c) Deslauriers.
(d) Regimbart.

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

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

4. In what year does the novel begin?
(a) 1840.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1770.
(d) 1860.

5. What item is lost during his arrest that Dussardier asks for multiple times?
(a) His backpack.
(b) His wallet.
(c) His box.
(d) His lunchbox.

6. What business does Jacques Arnoux take up after leaving the art business?
(a) Publishing.
(b) Banking.
(c) Ceramics.
(d) Entertainment.

7. Whom does Frederic seek out who gives him information on Arnoux's whereabouts?
(a) Rosanette.
(b) Regimbart.
(c) Dambreuse.
(d) Hussonet.

8. What topics does Frederic discuss with the man he meets on the ship?
(a) Theatre and literature.
(b) Family and hobbies.
(c) Tobacco and women.
(d) Politics and religion.

9. Which British writer did Frederic seek to emulate in his youth?
(a) Walter Scott.
(b) Jane Austen.
(c) Charles Dickens.
(d) Lord Byron.

10. Why is Dussardier arrested by the police?
(a) He is a murderer.
(b) He attacked a police officer who was beating a young man.
(c) He stole two loaves of bread.
(d) He is a government spy.

11. What is LÁrt industriel?
(a) A bookstore.
(b) A style of painting.
(c) A ship.
(d) An organization that is half art magazine and half art gallery.

12. Why does Madame Moreau refuse to have anything to do with Monsieur Roque?
(a) He is a known gambler and thief.
(b) He is living in sin with his maid.
(c) He is the election-rigger for the district.
(d) He is a foreigner.

13. Where does Frederic hope to meet Marie Arnoux every time he walks through it?
(a) Rue de la Harpe.
(b) The Champs-Elysées.
(c) The Tuileries.
(d) Rond-Point.

14. To whom does Frederic suggest the portrait he commissions be given?
(a) Oudry.
(b) Delmar.
(c) Dambreuse.
(d) Arnoux.

15. What is the name of the beautiful woman's daughter?
(a) Mademoiselle Mirabella.
(b) Mademoiselle Margueritte.
(c) Mademoiselle Marie.
(d) Mademoiselle Marthe.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Sénécal lose his job for the third time?

2. What title did Dambreuse have that he dropped?

3. Where does Frederic spend an excessive amount of money?

4. What become his principle interests after Deslauriers loses interest in metaphysics?

5. Where does Frederic first go looking for Arnoux when he returns to Paris in Chapter 1 of Part Two?

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