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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11, Histoire Prodigieuse, Histoire Tragique.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did the family get to their new home?
(a) Walked.
(b) Drove.
(c) Rode a horse and carriage.
(d) Rode the train.

2. Which of the following character traits best described Bertrande?
(a) Deceitful.
(b) Honorable.
(c) Happy.
(d) Sneaky.

3. Overall, Artigat was considered a __________place to live than the impostor's old village.
(a) Prettier.
(b) More important.
(c) Better.
(d) Worse.

4. Which of the following was evidence presented in the second trial?
(a) Physical dissimilarities between Martin and the impostor.
(b) The impostor's birth certificate.
(c) Martin's journal.
(d) Martin's picture.

5. Bertrande, like most women of her time, took on traditional female work, such as house work, crafting, spinning thread, and baking bread. What other work did women do at the time?
(a) Blacksmithing.
(b) Farming.
(c) Shoemaking.
(d) Mining.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the impostor's real name?

2. What was the impostor's sentence in the first trial?

3. What evidence was presented to prove the impostor was an impostor?

4. What example does the author give of other people who have taken a false identity?

5. How old was Judge Jean de Coras when the second trial began?

(see the answer key)

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