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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. Where does Frederic accompany Marie Arnoux in Chapter 5?
(a) To visit her mother.
(b) To L'Art Industriel.
(c) Shopping.
(d) To the theatre.

2. Where does Frederic ask Hussonet to take him?
(a) Dambreuse's house.
(b) Jacques Arnoux's gallery.
(c) Jacques Arnoux's house.
(d) Dambreuse's gallery

3. What is Hussonet's job?
(a) He works for fashion papers and writes advertisements for L'Art Industriel.
(b) He owns an art gallery.
(c) He is an actor in vaudeville.
(d) He is a painter.

4. What title did Dambreuse have that he dropped?
(a) Esquire.
(b) Comte.
(c) Doctor.
(d) Professor.

5. Where does Frederic speculate that the beautiful woman may have come from?
(a) India or China.
(b) Australia or the Azores Islands.
(c) Mexico or El Salvador.
(d) Andalusia or the West Indies.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Professor Samuel Rondelot's area of academic specialty?

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

3. Who is Frederic returning from visiting in hopes he will include him in his will?

4. What characteristics does Pellerin decide are more important in art than Beauty and Unity?

5. What does Frederic do with the money he gets from selling his new outfit to a second-hand clothes dealer?

Short Essay Questions

1. What kind of trouble does Frederic discover Arnoux is experiencing? With whom does he discuss this? What does he learn?

2. Where is the protagonist when the novel begins? What does he look like and what does he have with him?

3. What work does Charles Deslauriers do for his father? What unusual physical feature is a result of this work?

4. What is Sénécal's objection to Jacques Arnoux in Chapter 5? What does Sénecal believe the purpose of art to be?

5. What is Pellerin's attitude toward Realism? What does he believe the real goal of art to be? In his opinion, what is necessary for great art?

6. What is Deslauriers' reaction to Frederic's love for Madame Arnoux? What is Deslauriers' opinion of Marie Arnoux when he sees her in the Law Courts?

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 see when he opens the door to the first class section? What is his impression of this person?

9. From whom does Madame Moreau borrow money? How does she pay off this debt? How does this affect Frederic's future?

10. What business proposition do Hussonet and Deslauriers bring to Frederic? How does Frederic respond?

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