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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Urbain make sure to do at the engagement party?
(a) Make sure Claire never gets the chance to speak.
(b) Introduce Newman to all the important people.
(c) Drink a lot.
(d) Make fun of Newman behind his back.

2. What does Newman suggest to Valentin as a way for him to clear his head of Noemie?
(a) To start dating someone else.
(b) To go to America and get a job in a bank.
(c) All of these answers are correct.
(d) To take a vacation.

3. Who does Valentin think knows what really happened with his father's death?
(a) Mrs. Bread.
(b) Mrs. Tristam.
(c) Claire.
(d) Newman himself.

4. Who first meets Newman when he has come to speak with Claire's mother and brother, supposedly for the last time?
(a) Mrs. Bread.
(b) Mrs. Tristam.
(c) Tristam.
(d) Noemie.

5. Who watches Valentin eat his last meal before the duel?
(a) Noemie.
(b) Valentin's wife.
(c) Newman.
(d) Mrs. Tristam.

6. Who arranges for Newman to speak again with Urbain and Madame de Bellegarde after he sees them at Claire's chapel?
(a) Newman.
(b) Both Newman and Mrs. Urbain.
(c) Mrs. Urbain.
(d) Mrs. Tristam.

7. What does Newman promise Mrs. Bread if he marries Claire?
(a) He'll take care of Mrs. Bread, too.
(b) She can forget about him.
(c) She can bet she'll be taken out of the will.
(d) He'll prove her wrong.

8. Whom does Valentin tell Newman he wants to come visit him?
(a) Urbain.
(b) Claire.
(c) All of these answers are correct.
(d) His mother.

9. What indicates to the wounded Valentin that something is wrong with Newman?
(a) He overhears Newman talking to a reporter.
(b) He overhears Newman talking to a messenger.
(c) Nothing in particular; he can just tell.
(d) He catches Newman crying when he thinks no one is looking.

10. With whom does Valentin commit himself to a duel?
(a) Newman.
(b) Noemie's friend from the opera.
(c) Tristam.
(d) Urbain.

11. What surprises Valentin about the invitation his family sends out for Newman and Claire's engagement party?
(a) It doesn't mention that an American will be there as the entertainment.
(b) It doesn't have the family crest on it.
(c) It isn't on their usual stationery.
(d) It leaves off Newman's full name.

12. What piece of evidence does Newman show Urbain and his mother after they have all been to Claire's convent?
(a) The note from Claire's father.
(b) A letter from Claire.
(c) The bloody dagger.
(d) The photo Mrs. Bread took.

13. Whom does Newman see entering Claire's chapel just as he is leaving?
(a) Claire herself.
(b) Her mother and Urbain.
(c) Tristam.
(d) Mrs. Bread.

14. What does Newman ask when Mrs. Bread requests to know more about Valentin's last hours?
(a) To give him some time before he answers.
(b) They meet in private later.
(c) She should never ask him again.
(d) She should ask Claire's mother instead.

15. How does Valentin suspect his father died?
(a) By natural causes.
(b) By accident.
(c) By foul play.
(d) By suicide.

Short Answer Questions

1. What members of her family has Claire refused to see?

2. What does Mrs. Bread report Claire's family did to ruin Claire's relationship with Newman?

3. How long has Mrs. Bread known Claire's mother?

4. What is Urbain unhappy about at the engagement party?

5. Who insists that Newman be allowed in visit the injured Valentin?

(see the answer keys)

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