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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Marie Arnoux respond when Deslauriers declares his love for her?
(a) She laughs at him.
(b) She faints.
(c) She slaps him.
(d) She kisses him.

2. What does Frederic fantasize about while he watches Arnoux sleep in the guardroom?
(a) Marrying Louise Roque.
(b) Saving Marie Arnoux's life.
(c) Arnoux being killed in a rifle accident.
(d) Starting a family with Rosanette.

3. What does Cisy do as soon as the signal to begin the duel is given?
(a) Stabs Frederic.
(b) Shoots Frederic.
(c) Faints.
(d) Runs away.

4. Which character is implicated in a scheme involving carbines that are intercepted in Troyes?
(a) Dussardier.
(b) Deslauriers.
(c) Dambreuse.
(d) Roque.

5. What happens to the francs that Frederic was going to invest in Deslauriers' project?
(a) He loans it to Jacques Arnoux.
(b) He invests it in Dambreuses' company.
(c) He loans it to Regimbart.
(d) He loses it in a card game.

6. What effect does the change in government have in Paris?
(a) It makes everyone angry.
(b) It terrifies everyone.
(c) It saddens everyone.
(d) It makes everyone cheerful.

7. What are Frederic and Marie Arnoux doing when Rosanette interrupts them in Chapter 3 of Part Three?
(a) Crying.
(b) Talking.
(c) Fighting.
(d) Kissing.

8. What is the estimated worth of the Dambreuse estate?
(a) Thirty million francs.
(b) Three million francs.
(c) Thirty thousand francs.
(d) Three billion francs.

9. What is Cécile's relationship to Monsieur Dambreuse?
(a) She is his adopted daughter.
(b) She is his second cousin.
(c) She is his illegitimate daughter.
(d) She is his niece.

10. Why does Frederic desist from striking Rosanette after she interrupts his visit with Marie?
(a) She announces that she is terminally ill.
(b) He remembers that Rosanette has to appear in public the next morning.
(c) She announces that she is pregnant.
(d) He notices that Marie Arnoux is watching them.

11. Seeing which trinket incites an argument between Rosanette and Mademoiselle Vatnaz?
(a) A diamond bracelet.
(b) A gold sheep pendant.
(c) A silver pocket watch.
(d) A pearl handled parasol.

12. What news does Frederic's porter give Louise Roque that breaks her heart?
(a) Frederic has not slept at his home for three months.
(b) Frederic has eloped with Rosanette.
(c) Frederic has run off with Marie Arnoux.
(d) Frederic has proposed marriage to Mademoiselle Vatnaz.

13. What does Frederic begin writing to distract himself from his infatuation with Marie Arnoux?
(a) A Treatise on the French Legal Code.
(b) A History of the Renaissance.
(c) A History of the French Revolution.
(d) A Treatise on Modern Banking.

14. What is Pellerin going to ask the government to create when Frederic sees him with a column of followers in the Latin Quarter?
(a) An Arts Workshop.
(b) A Committee for Public Safety.
(c) A National Museum.
(d) A National Park.

15. Why does Madame Dambreuse write three letters to Cécile?
(a) She is lonely and misses Cécile since she married and moved away.
(b) She is curious about Cécile's new married life.
(c) She needs money and asks Cécile for a loan.
(d) Monsieur Dambreuse asks to see her when he is on his deathbed.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the prostitute posing as who Frederic sees in the palace?

2. When Frederic leaves Deslauriers with his power of attorney, what is the first dishonest scheme Deslauriers considers and immediately discards?

3. What is Hussonet's opinion of Le Chevalier de maison rouge that the other guests at Dussardier's party fervently disagree with?

4. What wild behavior of her husband does Marie Arnoux comment to Frederic in Chapter 6 of Part Two?

5. Why does Jacques Arnoux tell Marie that Rosanette is Frederic's mistress?

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