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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 Porthos show how unhappy he is?

2. What does Madame de Chevreuse say about what Raoul says he wants to do with his life?

3. Who wants the Queen to find out how the Cardinal feels about the King?

4. What gift did the queen once give to d'Artagnoa?

5. What warning does de Winter bring Athos?

Short Essay Questions

1. What relieves the tension at the meeting of the four musketeers?

2. How does d'Artagnan protect Planchet, and why?

3. What does the executioner wish to find absolution for before he dies, and what is strange about this?

4. How does Beaufort escape?

5. What is ironic about the man Raoul saves from drowning?

6. What does Athos do before Raoul leaves for his training?

7. How does Rochefort escape?

8. What does Mazarin think of his first introduction to Porthos?

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

10. Why are the people so angry with Mazarin?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How do the musketeers change through the course of the book, and what causes these changes? Who undergoes the most emotional growth?

Essay Topic 2

Why does Mordaunt want revenge, and how does he go about getting this?

Essay Topic 3

This book a sequel. How does this book, as a sequel, have to be treated differently than other novels in this genre?

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