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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the difference in age between Monsieur Crevel and Monsieur Hulot?
(a) Hulot is ten years younger.
(b) Hulot is seven years younger.
(c) Crevel is ten years younger.
(d) Crevel is seven years younger.

2. For how long does Monsieur Crevel estimate that the Baroness will remain beautiful?
(a) Ten years.
(b) Fifteen years.
(c) Five years.
(d) A lifetime.

3. In his dedication, to what job does the author compare his work as a novelist?
(a) Theatre actor.
(b) Supreme Court Justice.
(c) Professor of philosophy.
(d) Doctor of social medicine.

4. Who does Wenceslas tell Lisbeth has purchased his group?
(a) The Duc d'Herouville.
(b) The Baron.
(c) Monsieur Crevel.
(d) The Comte of Montcornet.

5. Who is Madame Marneffe's father?
(a) The Comte of Montcornet.
(b) Monsieur Crevel.
(c) The Comte of Clichy.
(d) The Baron.

Short Answer Questions

1. What award does Monseiur Crevel wear on his National Guard uniform?

2. What subject does Lisbeth's beau teach?

3. What reason does Lisbeth give Wenceslas to convince him not to write to anyone from jail about his predicament?

4. What is Monsieur Crevel doing while waiting for the Baroness to enter the sitting room?

5. Why does the Baron want Lisbeth to move to the Rue Vaneau?

Short Essay Questions

1. Whom does Wenceslas see when he returns home? Whom does he say has purchased his bronze group and offered him work?

2. What plan do Lisbeth and Hortense agree upon to help out Lisbeth's admirer? Who accompanies Hortense on this mission? Whom does her escort take notice of during this venture?

3. What solution does Monsieur Crevel propose to the Baroness for the problem of Hortense's dowry? What other options does he tell her she has available to her?

4. What does Lisbeth tell Hortense and Adeline has happened to Wenceslas? How does Hortense react? How is Bette's lie discovered?

5. How do Monsieur Crevel and Monsieur Hulot know one another? How are they related? What occasioned their falling out?

6. Why does the Baroness summon Monsieur Crevel? Which of Monsieur Crevel's actions have affected the Baroness? Why has he acted this way?

7. Who is Valerie Marneffe's father? Why does she inherit nothing upon his death?

8. What does Lisbeth advise Wenceslas to do after the visit from Monsieur Grasset and what reason does she give for this? What does she promise to do?

9. Describe Lisbeth. How old is she? How does she dress? How does this affect her social standing in comparison to her cousin, the Baroness?

10. Whom does Hortense decide to marry? What is the relationship between Hortense's intended and Lisbeth? Why does Baron Hulot tell her that Cousin Bette will not be an obstacle to Hortense's intended marriage?

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