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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. How does Merivel feel about the loss of his dog?
(a) He is angry.
(b) He is sad.
(c) He is glad.
(d) He doesn't care.

2. Who is present at every meeting between Merivel and Celia when they are courting?
(a) The Queen.
(b) The King.
(c) Celia's father.
(d) Celia's mother.

3. Which Cambridge college did Merivel attend?
(a) Caius College.
(b) Downing College.
(c) King's College.
(d) Trinity College.

4. Who interrupts Merivel's wedding night?
(a) Barbara.
(b) Celia's father.
(c) The King.
(d) The Queen.

5. How is the person in the story cured?
(a) By drinking a glass of poison.
(b) By drowning and being resuscitated.
(c) By vomiting up a sac of eggs.
(d) By expelling a large worm in her excrement.

Short Answer Questions

1. What narrative perspective does the novel use?

2. Who does Merivel visit after leaving Whitehall?

3. What does Merivel give to Degeulasse de Gourly?

4. Who does Merivel need to meet before he can court and marry Celia?

5. What does Merivel do after his wedding night is interrupted?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the King order Merivel to do for him at the end of the first chapter?

2. What is the distinction between the Idle and the Impotent?

3. How does Merivel imagine the representation of his astrological sign?

4. How does Merivel set about the job given to him by the Justice of the Peace?

5. How does Merivel convince Lady Bathurst that she has nothing to worry about regarding Celia?

6. What does Merivel tell the King after drinking the tampered wine?

7. What is wrong with Lady Bathurst's husband?

8. What is Merivel's response to the King summoning him with a letter?

9. Who has Celia invited to the house, and why?

10. Why doesn't Merivel try to treat his dog himself?

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