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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 Mazarin disguise himself as?

2. Where is Milady's son heading?

3. What is Beaumont's title?

4. Who is Athos talking with when de Winter comes to warn him?

5. What warning does de Winter bring Athos?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What about Mouston bothers d'Artagnan?

3. what does Rochefort do once he has escaped?

4. Why can't Rochefort become a guard to Beaufort?

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

6. How does Mordaunt feel about the King, and why?

7. How does Mordaunt begin enacting his revenge?

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

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

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

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 affected the course of the plot. Why might Alexandre Dumas have chosen these particular places for this plot to take place?

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

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

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