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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 does Madame Scholtz and Oxtiern plan to do to break up Herman and Ernestine?
(a) Get rid of Herman and Ernestine.
(b) Have Oxtiern abduct Ernestine.
(c) Get rid of Herman.
(d) Get rid of Ernestine.

2. When the Colonel and Ernestine arrive at Stockholm, whose home do they visit?
(a) Oxtiern's.
(b) Madame Glunch's.
(c) Frindern's.
(d) Madame Plorman's.

3. Who are the guests at the second dinner party?
(a) Girls of "superior class."
(b) Prostitutes.
(c) Homeless boys.
(d) Homeless girls.

4. What did Geoffrey give to Duclos while in Louis' cell?
(a) A "red-bodied drink."
(b) A "faction."
(c) A "sirup."
(d) A coin.

5. Why does Oxtiern plan for Ernestine to travel by carriage to Norrkoping?
(a) She needed to be able to be watched from afar.
(b) She was afraid of the sea.
(c) She would be safer.
(d) She needed to arrive refreshed.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the only man to "discharge" on the morning of the "First Day"?

2. According to Ernestine, what will she never be able to do again?

3. The auditors are moved to which room to listen to narrations?

4. How many children did Duc de Blangis have?

5. At what age is Champville "deflowered"?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Duclos' story get interrupted on the First Day?

2. In a short summary, what happens during the action of Duclos' story?

3. What are the stage directions for Act Three?

4. When "the story opens," what are the circumstances surrounding Saunders?

5. What are the details surrounding Herman?

6. What does Martaine state that she wants to do on the 10th of January?

7. What happens to Narcisse at the supper meal on the First Day?

8. Why does Herman want to wait to marry?

9. Who assumes the task of the storytelling in December?

10. During the sixth week festival in December, what happens?

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