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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Frederic is worried about his appearance as he goes to visit Dambreuse until he remembers which fact about him?
(a) He is a member of the working class.
(b) He is blind.
(c) He will not be home.
(d) He is just a bourgeois.

2. What is the name of Frederic's friend from law school who lives with his working-class girlfriend and happily studies law?
(a) Jacques Arnoux.
(b) Charles Deslauriers
(c) Baptiste Martinon.
(d) Monsieur de Cisy.

3. What topics does Frederic discuss with the man he meets on the ship?
(a) Theatre and literature.
(b) Family and hobbies.
(c) Tobacco and women.
(d) Politics and religion.

4. What is the Alhambra?
(a) An art magazine.
(b) A museum.
(c) A dance hall.
(d) An art gallery.

5. Who is the owner of L'Art?
(a) Deslauriers.
(b) Dambreuse.
(c) Hussonet.
(d) Arnoux.

6. Where does Frederic speculate that the beautiful woman may have come from?
(a) India or China.
(b) Mexico or El Salvador.
(c) Andalusia or the West Indies.
(d) Australia or the Azores Islands.

7. How old is Frederic at the beginning of the novel?
(a) 16 years old.
(b) 40 years old.
(c) 20 years old.
(d) 18 years old.

8. To whom does Deslauriers suggest Monsieur Roque introduce Frederic?
(a) The Dambreuses.
(b) Martinon.
(c) Marie Arnoux.
(d) Jacques Arnoux.

9. In Chapter 2 of Part Two, which women in his life does Frederic compare to wild, playful and amusing music, and solemn and almost religious music, respectively?
(a) Mademoiselle Roque and Mademoiselle Vatnaz.
(b) Madame Dambreuse and Madame Roque.
(c) Madame Arnoux and Madame Moreau.
(d) Madame Rosanette and Madame Arnoux.

10. Where does Frederic ask Hussonet to take him?
(a) Jacques Arnoux's gallery.
(b) Dambreuse's house.
(c) Dambreuse's gallery
(d) Jacques Arnoux's house.

11. What is LÁrt industriel?
(a) A bookstore.
(b) A style of painting.
(c) An organization that is half art magazine and half art gallery.
(d) A ship.

12. Where does Frederic spend an excessive amount of money?
(a) Law school.
(b) L'Art industriel.
(c) Restuarants.
(d) The theatre.

13. What business does Jacques Arnoux take up after leaving the art business?
(a) Entertainment.
(b) Publishing.
(c) Ceramics.
(d) Banking.

14. Which character does Frederic commission Pellerin to paint a life-size portrait of?
(a) Rosanette.
(b) Louise Roque.
(c) Mademoiselle Vatnaz.
(d) Marie Arnoux.

15. To whom does Frederic suggest the portrait he commissions be given?
(a) Dambreuse.
(b) Oudry.
(c) Delmar.
(d) Arnoux.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the beautiful woman's husband?

2. How did Madame Moreau's husband die?

3. In what year does the novel begin?

4. What news does Frederic receive that leads him to return to Paris?

5. How does Dambreuse indicate to Frederic that their meeting has ended?

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