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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. Who is Chauvelin talking to when he arrives at the inn at Calais?

2. Where is the Blakeney estate?

3. Why does Chauvelin have the Jewish man beaten?

4. Where does Chauvelin promise to send Armand when he has captured the Scarlet Pimpernel?

5. What does Chauvelin tell his soldiers to wait for when they get to where Armand was spotted?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Blakeney say he uses in men to outwit them?

2. What does Chauvelin offer and threaten the Jewish man in Calais with?

3. What does Chauvelin find after getting information from Marguerite?

4. How did Blakeney trick Chauvelin at the end of the book?

5. Who does Marguerite turn to for help when she realizes her husband is the Scarlet Pimpernel and why?

6. What does Marguerite ask her husband when she is in her garden after the ball?

7. What does Chauvelin say when he hears his secretary did not see Blakeny run out of the inn?

8. What does Chauvelin want Blakeney to be doing when he arrests him, and why?

9. What does Lord Blakeney say to his wife before leaving after their talk in the garden?

10. Why did the soldiers not stop Armand and the fugitives when they boarded the boat and left?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

This book takes place in a few different settings. Describe some of these settings and how they affect the course of the plot. Why might Baroness Orczy have chosen these particular places for this plot to take place?

Essay Topic 2

How does Lord Blakeney mask his role as the Scarlet Pimpernel, and what affect does this have on his social standing?

Essay Topic 3

Shame and propriety are common themes throughout this book. What are some of the instances where these themes are present, and why are they so important to the characters involved?

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