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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The police inspector in Montreuil threatens Fantine with what jail sentence for attacking a man who insulted her in Part I – Fantine?
(a) 3 months.
(b) 1 month.
(c) 8 months.
(d) 6 months.

2. How many years have passed since Fantine has been to her hometown in Book V of Part I – Fantine?
(a) 17.
(b) 22.
(c) 12.
(d) 6.

3. How many years have passed since Jean Valjean’s first encounter with M. Myriel in Book III of Part I – Fantine?
(a) 9.
(b) 5.
(c) 2.
(d) 8.

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

5. What officer promises to always remember Thénardier for saving his life in Book I of Part II – Cosette?
(a) Georges Pontmercy.
(b) Martin Verga.
(c) Theodule Gillenormand.
(d) Charles Myriel.

6. How much money does Jean Valjean offer Fauchelevent to let him and Cosette spend the night at his lodgings in Book V of Part II – Cosette?
(a) 100 francs.
(b) 250 francs.
(c) 650 francs.
(d) 50 francs.

7. What is the name of Fantine’s hometown to which she returns in order to find work in Part I – Fantine?
(a) Arras.
(b) Toulon.
(c) Montreuil-sur-mer.
(d) Feuilly.

8. It is November of what year that a sailor on the Orion falls off one of the ship’s masts in Book II of Part II – Cosette?
(a) 1821.
(b) 1814.
(c) 1817.
(d) 1823.

9. What are the names of the Thénardiers’ two daughters whom they spoil?
(a) Fantine and Eponine.
(b) Cosette and Fantine.
(c) Eponine and Azelma.
(d) Azelma and Cosette.

10. What does M. Myriel insist that Jean Valjean take with him when he is brought back to Myriel’s home by the police?
(a) A bag of money.
(b) A silver coin.
(c) A loaf of bread.
(d) Silver candlesticks.

11. How old is Cosette when she is introduced in Book III of Part II – Cosette?
(a) 11.
(b) 4.
(c) 16.
(d) 8.

12. What is the name of the Thénardiers’ baby boy in Book III of Part II – Cosette?
(a) Gavroche.
(b) Enjolras.
(c) Javert.
(d) Combeferre.

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

14. Jean Valjean tells the landlady at the Gorbeau House that Cosette is what in Book II of Part II – Cosette?
(a) His niece.
(b) His aunt.
(c) His granddaughter.
(d) His daughter.

15. The narrator says that Monsieur Madeleine arrived in Montreuil in what year in Book V of Part I – Fantine?
(a) 1822.
(b) 1818.
(c) 1815.
(d) 1830.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. In Book VI of Part I – Fantine, Javert claims that he has positively identified Champmathieu as Valjean and states that he is leaving for where to testify in the trial the following day?

3. Where does Cosette enroll in school in Book VIII of Part II – Cosette?

4. Fauchelevent tells Valjean that he and Cosette are in the garden of what convent in Book V of Part II – Cosette?

5. For how many years has Jean Valjean been in prison when his character is introduced in Part I – Fantine?

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