1. What is the title of Book III in Part I – Fantine?
(a) “Cemeteries Take What is Given Them.”
(b) “In the Year 1817.”
(c) “Paris Atomized.”
(d) “To Trust is Sometimes to Surrender.”

2. By what year does the narrator say in Book VII of Part II – Cosette that there are no new recruits and the nuns of the convent begin to die off?
(a) 1810.
(b) 1820.
(c) 1830.
(d) 1840.

3. What is the largest industry in Montreuil, according to the narrator in Part I – Fantine?
(a) Ship lumber.
(b) House lumber.
(c) Coal.
(d) Black beads.

4. What is the second thing that Fantine sells in order to make money when she becomes desperate after losing her job at the factory?
(a) Her hair.
(b) Her front teeth.
(c) Her house.
(d) Her horse.

5. What is Charles Myriel’s position within the Church in Part I – Fantine?
(a) He is a Pope.
(b) He is a priest.
(c) He is a Bishop.
(d) He is a Cardinal.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what do the nuns convince Fauchelevent to fill a coffin in order to avoid breaking Parisian law by burying a nun in the convent in Book VIII of Part II – Cosette?

2. What is the title of Book II of Part III – Marius?

3. What nation was victorious at the Battle of Waterloo?

4. What is the hometown of Marius’s father to which Marius rides in order to see him in Book III of Part III – Marius?

5. Fauchelevent believes that Valjean is hiding from whom in Book VIII of Part II – Cosette?

(see the answer key)

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