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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. How does Frederic prepare to become an artist at the beginning of Chapter 5?
(a) He visits art museums.
(b) He buys paints, brushes, and an easel.
(c) He reads books on aesthetics.
(d) He studies the great masters.

2. What is the title of the novel that Frederic begins to write?
(a) Stephen, the farmer's nephew.
(b) Simon, the farmer's brother
(c) Sylvester, the fisherman's cat.
(d) Sylvio, the fisherman's son.

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

4. Where is Marie Arnoux from?
(a) Paris.
(b) Chartres.
(c) Madrid.
(d) Normandy.

5. What does Frederic do with the money he gets from selling his new outfit to a second-hand clothes dealer?
(a) He buys a necklace for Marie Arnoux.
(b) He treats Jacques Arnoux to dinner.
(c) He hires a tutor.
(d) He goes to visit his mother.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the marble plaque on Rue Montemartre say that catches Frederic's eye as he leaves his meeting with Dambreuse?

3. What business does Jacques Arnoux take up after leaving the art business?

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

5. What is LÁrt industriel?

Short Essay Questions

1. What conflict does Frederic have when he finally receives his long-awaited invitation from the Dambreuses? How is it resolved?

2. Who is the host of the costume party to which Arnoux brings Frederic? What is this person's relationship to Arnoux?

3. Whom does Frederic see when he opens the door to the first class section? What is his impression of this person?

4. What does Pellerin do for a living? What type of books does he read? What is the secret he is trying to discover? Why?

5. What gift does Jacques Arnoux give his wife at her party? Why does he give her this particular gift? What is her reaction? What does she do with the gift during the carriage ride back to Paris?

6. When Frederic and Deslauriers begin living together in Chapter 5, what is their relationship like? How do they divide the labor and costs of living?

7. What is the relationship between Frederic and Deslauriers? How did it begin? What planes do they have for the future?

8. Whom does Frederic immediately go to visit when he hears that Jacques Arnoux has gone to Germany? What surprise is waiting for him? Where is the person he was looking for?

9. With whom does Frederic develop a friendship in Chapter 6? How do the other characters feel about this friendship?

10. Whom does Frederic go to call upon when he first returns to Paris? Why does he have difficulty finding this person? Who helps Frederic locate this person?

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