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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. How long is Adeline ill before she can leave her room and join her friends?

2. What does the Marquis have done to Theodore in Chapter 13?

3. What does La Luc say he considers Adeline as?

4. What about the letter transfixes the Marquis?

5. What does La Luc take the chevalier to see in Chapter 18?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does La Luc tell Verneuil is proof of how much he likes him?

2. What does Theodore tell the doctor in Chapter 13? How does the doctor try to help?

3. What does Du Bosse explain in his testimony?

4. What does the valet give to the Marquis? How does the Marquis react to the item?

5. Who makes a request to see Adeline in Chapter 19? What does he tell her?

6. Why does La Luc decide to go to London at the end of Chapter 20?

7. What happens on the return journey from the Glacier of Montanvert?

8. What does the judge decide after hearing Du Bosse's testimony?

9. What does the Marquis tell La Motte at the end of Chapter 14?

10. Who does Adeline find out she is related to in Chapter 24? What does this person bring to Adeline?

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 struggles faced by Adeline throughout the novel. What struggles does she face? How does she overcome them?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Radcliffe's inclusion of criminal elements in the novel "The Romance of the Forest." What are some examples of criminal activity in the novel? How do these examples affect the tone of the scene? Are these examples necessary?

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