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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 Athos do when Aramis is brought up?

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

3. How does Porthos show how unhappy he is?

4. What does the letter Mordaunt brings ask Mazarin to do?

5. What does Rochefort want Beuafort to request?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the King wish the Queen to do about Mazarin?

2. What does Beaumont say in his letter to Mazarin after d'Artagnan and Porthos have to surrender?

3. What cause does Mordaunt have to hate de Winter?

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. How does Rochefort escape?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Which character do you relate with the most in this book? Why is this? How does this character change throughout the book?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

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

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