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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 does Marguerite feel after finding the object on the floor of the private room?

2. What is the Chat Gris?

3. Where does Margeurite see love from her husband after the ball?

4. What message does Margeurite have the second person she talks to in the boudoir send?

5. What important question does Margeurite ask her husband after the ball?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Marguerite hope to do when she hears Chauvelin's plan to imprison Blakeney?

4. What do the Blakeneys do when they return to England at the end of the book?

5. How does Marguerite feel when she first realizes that her husband is the Scarlet Pimpernel?

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

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

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

9. What does Suzanne talk about when she comes to see Marguerite the day after the ball?

10. What do Jellyband and his daughter think Marguerite is up to when she is planning her trip to France with Andrew?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Valor is a theme of this book that and is important to many of the characters involved. Where does this theme of valor present itself and how do these occurrences affect the characters involved in those scenes?

Essay Topic 2

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 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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