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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. 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.

2. What was the occupation of Rosanette's parents in Croix-Rousse in Lyon?
(a) Art dealers.
(b) Farmers.
(c) Circus performers.
(d) Silk workers.

3. What does Madame Dambreuse ask Frederic immediately after she is widowed?
(a) If he will loan her money.
(b) If he will call a doctor for her.
(c) If he will marry her.
(d) If he will kill her so she can be with her beloved husband.

4. Why does Jacques Arnoux tell Marie that Rosanette is Frederic's mistress?
(a) To lower her opinion of Frederic.
(b) To avoid a relationship developing between Marie and Frederic.dev
(c) To make her jealous.
(d) To avoid arguments over his excessive spending.

5. Whom does Frederic unexpectedly meet when he goes to Arnoux's factory to fulfill Louise Roque's order?
(a) Sénécal.
(b) Monsieur Roque.
(c) Dambreuse.
(d) Marie Arnoux.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who gives Sénécal a job after he leaves Arnoux's factory?

2. Seeing which trinket incites an argument between Rosanette and Mademoiselle Vatnaz?

3. In Chapter 3 of Part Two, how does Deslauriers believe politics should be treated?

4. On whose behalf is the benefit performance to which Mademoiselle Vatnaz sells Frederic three tickets?

5. Who runs up the stairs of the palace singing the Marseillaise in Chapter 1 of Part Three?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Frederic court Madame Dambreuse? What topic of conversation is repeated between the two? How does Frederic feel about Madame Dambreuse in comparison to his other loves?

2. What does the painting Frederic comments upon in Dambreuse's house depict? Who painted it?

3. What decision to Frederic make about the Arnouxs upon returning to Paris in Chapter 6 of Part Two? What request hampers his plan?

4. How does Frederic respond when Pellerin asks him to pay for the painting of Rosanette he commissioned? What becomes of the painting in the end?

5. What significant political event takes place at the end of Chapter 6 of Part Two? What effect does this event have on the people of Paris?

6. What does Mademoiselle Vatnaz believe the role of the woman to be? What is Rosanette's position on the subject?

7. What does Frederic think when he sees how affected Louise Roque is by his visit? Why is Monsieur Roque interested in seeing his daughter marry Frederic?

8. How does Monsieur Roque attempt to gain Madame Moreau's favor? How successful is he?

9. To which club does Dussardier take Frederic to rally support for his candidacy? Who is the chairman of the club? Whom does Regimbart support instead of Frederic?

10. What is happening in the streets of Paris in Chapter 1 of Part Three? What is Frederic's reaction to what he sees?

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