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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. What does Adeline beg La Motte to allow her to do?

2. What does Adeline become more fearful of as she stays in her locked room?

3. Where is Theodore wounded when he fights with some officers who have come to arrest him in Chapter 12?

4. How old was Adeline when she was taken to a different convent to live?

5. What is the person who watches Adeline in the woods wearing?

Short Essay Questions

1. What dreams does Adeline have in Chapter 7 after Theodore fails to show up for their arranged meeting?

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

3. What do Louis and Madame La Motte squabble over at breakfast in Chapter 5?

4. With the Marquis expected for dinner, what does Adeline ask La Motte in Chapter 7, and how does he respond?

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

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

8. Who arrives at the abbey on a stormy night in Chapter 6?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Ann Radcliffe, the author of the novel, "The Romance of the Forest." What others works did she write? What similarities or connections can be found between this novel and Radcliffe's other work? How is she regarded in the literary world?

Essay Topic 2

What happens at the end of the novel "The Romance of the Forest"? Is everything resolved? Are there any surprises at the end of the novel? What happens to the principle characters?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the motif of fate in the novel "The Romance of the Forest." What does 'fate' mean? What are some examples of fate in the novel?

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