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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 11, what does Adeline do when she sees Theodore in the garden?

2. Who is the leader of the strangers who enter the abbey in Chapter 6?

3. What does La Motte order his son never to speak to him about again?

4. How does Adeline suggest the Marquis can earn her esteem?

5. What does Adeline think she sees in her room while she is reading the manuscript in Chapter 9?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does La Motte send Peter in Chapter 2? Who does Peter have an argument with and why?

2. What does Louis apologize to Adeline about in Chapter 5?

3. Why does Adeline emerge from the La Mottes' hiding place at the beginning of Chapter 5? Who does she meet when she does so?

4. What does La Motte do to make Adeline cry in Chapter 1?

5. Where is Adeline taken at the beginning of Chapter 11? What is she told while there?

6. When the Marquis returns to the abbey in Chapter 8, what does he declare and how does Adeline respond? Why does Madame La Motte encourage Adeline to be amiable to the Marquis?

7. How does La Motte's behavior change after he and his household settle in at the abbey? How does Madame La Motte explain the change in his personality?

8. What did Adeline's father want her to do since he could not support her?

9. How does Theodore explain his sudden disappearance from the abbey?

10. Why does La Motte's group return to spend the night at the Abbey in Chapter 2?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the tone of the novel. What is the tone of the novel? Is this tone commonly found in a novel of this genre? At what points in the novel does the tone change and why?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the motif of fear in the novel "The Romance of the Forest." What are some examples of fear in the novel? What is Adeline fearful of and why? Does she face her fears?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the genre of the novel "The Romance of the Forest," the Gothic romance genre. What are the elements of this genre? Why is "The Romance of the Forest" an example of this genre? What are some other novels of the same genre? What do these novels have in common with "The Romance of the Forest"?

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