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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What pets does Percerin keep due to special permission from King Louis XIV?
(a) A rare set of parrots.
(b) An elephant.
(c) A pack of hounds.
(d) Arabian racehorces.

2. When Baisemeaux hears the noise of Louis in his cell in Chapter 18, what is his response?
(a) He sends a guard to silence Louis.
(b) He is annoyed, but just continues on with his meal.
(c) He goes to see what the commotion is about.
(d) He laughs that the prisoner has gone mad as if it is a joke.

3. How did the preceptor and the nurse of the prisoner die?
(a) They drowned.
(b) They were hung.
(c) They were poisoned.
(d) They were executed.

4. Once the king has been imprisoned in the Bastille, where does Porthos go?
(a) He goes to his chateaux.
(b) He goes into Paris to drink with some friends.
(c) He stays at the Bastille to guard the prisoner until Aramis returns.
(d) He returns to Vaux.

5. What do the figures on the Bastille clock represent?
(a) St. Peter in Bonds.
(b) The three fates.
(c) The Greek God of war.
(d) A lion and several prisoners.

6. Where does Fouquet suggest that Aramis should go as a place of refuge in Chapter 21?
(a) Paris.
(b) Spain.
(c) Sweden.
(d) Belle-Isle.

7. According to Aramis in Chapter 1, who will come to fetch the prisoner in the future?
(a) Baisemeaux.
(b) He does not tell the prisoner who will rescue him.
(c) Aramis himself will come.
(d) The Queen.

8. Who does the king request to see before he retires for the night on his first evening at Vaux?
(a) D'Artagnan.
(b) Colbert.
(c) Fouquet.
(d) Aramis.

9. What sentence would befall those who try to communicate with the prisoner "Marchiali" after he is re-incarcerated?
(a) Death.
(b) Lifetime imprisonment.
(c) Ten years impriosonment.
(d) Exile.

10. According to Philippe in Chapter 10, who is the mortal enemy of Colbert?
(a) Fouquet.
(b) D'Artagnan.
(c) Mademoiselle de la Valliere.
(d) The king.

11. When D'Artagnan comes to visit Porthos in Chapter 2, what reason does Porthos give for his melancholy?
(a) His estate at Vallon was recently destroyed by a fire.
(b) He had not been invited to a party at Vaux he'd hoped to attend.
(c) He had received bad news about his investments in Bracieux.
(d) He has no clothes that fit him.

12. What is the date of the fete at Vaux?
(a) August 15.
(b) June 21.
(c) July 14.
(d) December 21.

13. How did the prisoner discover that the lady who visited him monthly during his childhood was the Queen?
(a) His nurse told him.
(b) A servant from the village informed him.
(c) He overheard his caretakers discussing her.
(d) The Queen herself told him.

14. What does Porthos believe he is to receive for his part in the plot?
(a) A fortune.
(b) A dukedome.
(c) The gift of a new palace.
(d) A commission in the musketeers.

15. When the king leaves the passage in Chapter 17, where is he taken?
(a) He is taken to a shack in the village of Melun.
(b) He is taken to a waiting carriage.
(c) He is taken to a cave.
(d) He is taken to the dungeon of Vaux.

Short Answer Questions

1. What house did the late Madame du Vallon have a chamber with a secret door in?

2. Who waited on the king during the dinner during Chapter 13?

3. Which two people overhear the king tell La Valliere he loves her in Chapter 13?

4. What does D'Artagnan request from the king before he arrest Fouquet?

5. Why do Porthos and D'Artagnan approach Percerin's house on foot in Chapter 3?

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