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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 Mordaunt want from de Winter?

2. What does Mazarin do to Abbe Scarron that infuriates the people?

3. Who tries to back out of the meeting with the four musketeers?

4. What does Porthos want to be happy?

5. What kind of pear does Grimaud say Beaufort will receive?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Mazarin show such interest in Mordaunt when they first meet?

2. Why does Mordaunt say he is allowing de Winter to live?

3. How does Rochefort escape?

4. What does La Ramee have Grimaud do, and why?

5. Why was Beaufort arrested?

6. How does d'Artagnan get Porthos to agree to help him?

7. What does Mazarin do to Abbe Scarron, and how does this affect him?

8. How does Mordaunt begin enacting his revenge?

9. what does Rochefort do once he has escaped?

10. What secret of Aramis's does d'Aartagnan witness?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are some of the key examples of gratitude in this book, and how do these instances affect that characters involved in those scenes?

Essay Topic 2

Friendship is a strong theme throughout the book. Where are some places that this theme appears, and how do the characters touched by it react? How do certain friendships change over the course of the book, and what causes these changes?

Essay Topic 3

Much of this plot advanced through the use of letters. What are some of the most important letters, and how did they shape the plot?

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