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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 7, Part 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Mireille decide not to return to the carriage?
(a) She cannot find it
(b) Valentine calls for her
(c) She sees David up ahead
(d) She sees her driver's head on a spear

2. What does Catherine believe herself to be acting out?
(a) Prevention of destruction
(b) Destiny
(c) Inheritance
(d) Power

3. Who is Catherine's lover at this time?
(a) Plato
(b) Alice
(c) Euler
(d) Socrates

4. Who was Cardinal Rihelieu?
(a) Governor
(b) Politician
(c) Bishop
(d) Painter

5. Who is the man that Valentine and Mireille see who walks with a slight limp?
(a) David
(b) Bishop of Autun
(c) Germaine de Stael
(d) Richelieu

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the person that the Bishop says wants to gain control of the service?

2. Whose identity does Catherine try to determine as part of her investigation into the chess match?

3. What stops Valentine and Miereille's carriage?

4. What does David believe is the only thing that will save France from itself?

5. Who does the Abbess call the greatest chess master of all?

(see the answer key)

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