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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Pellerin ask Dussardier and Deslauriers to do?
(a) Convince Frederic to start an art magazine.
(b) Convince Frederic to purchase the portrait of Rosanette.
(c) Convince Frederic to marry Rosanette.
(d) Convince Frederic to open an art gallery.

2. What position does Deslauriers encourage Frederic to campaign for?
(a) Deputy.
(b) President.
(c) Prime Minister.
(d) Senator.

3. What position does Dambreuse offer Frederic in his Consortium of French Coal-mining Companies?
(a) Vice President of Internal Affairs.
(b) Chief Executive Officer.
(c) Company President.
(d) Company Secretary.

4. When Frederic returns from visiting Marie Arnoux in Creil, he finds a letter waiting for him from Rosanette inviting him to which event?
(a) The regatta.
(b) A costume ball.
(c) The races.
(d) The tour-de-France.

5. What wild behavior of her husband does Marie Arnoux comment to Frederic in Chapter 6 of Part Two?
(a) He is planning to duel with Rosanette's lover.
(b) He is living with Rosanette.
(c) He has taken a second job to pay off his debts.
(d) He is keeping a factory worker known as the Bordeaux woman.

6. Why does Dussardier decide to give a party?
(a) To celebrate Frederic's engagement to Louise Roque.
(b) To celebrate Sénécal's release from prison.
(c) To celebrate Frederic's birthday.
(d) To celebrate his raise in salary.

7. What do Frederic and Marie curse during their conversations?
(a) Fate.
(b) Family.
(c) Money.
(d) Marriage.

8. What does Frederic begin writing to distract himself from his infatuation with Marie Arnoux?
(a) A Treatise on Modern Banking.
(b) A Treatise on the French Legal Code.
(c) A History of the French Revolution.
(d) A History of the Renaissance.

9. Who procures a personal letter from Dambreuse supporting Frederic's candidacy?
(a) Arnoux.
(b) Roque.
(c) Madame Dambreuse.
(d) Deslauriers.

10. How does Marie Arnoux respond when Deslauriers declares his love for her?
(a) She slaps him.
(b) She kisses him.
(c) She laughs at him.
(d) She faints.

11. What does the sight of the five bodies killed on the boulevard des Capucines being carried through the streets on a cart change?
(a) Frederic's opinion of the monarchy.
(b) Hussonet's opinion of the Republic.
(c) The Constitution.
(d) The people's mood.

12. Who runs up the stairs of the palace singing the Marseillaise in Chapter 1 of Part Three?
(a) The National Guardsmen.
(b) The Paris People.
(c) Monsieur Dambreuse.
(d) Rosanette.

13. What is the new name of Hussonet's paper, L'Art?
(a) Le Marshal.
(b) Le Titian.
(c) Le Flambard.
(d) Le Cap.

14. Who gives Sénécal a job after he leaves Arnoux's factory?
(a) Hussonet.
(b) Roque.
(c) Dambreuse.
(d) Deslauriers.

15. What happens to the francs that Frederic was going to invest in Deslauriers' project?
(a) He loses it in a card game.
(b) He invests it in Dambreuses' company.
(c) He loans it to Jacques Arnoux.
(d) He loans it to Regimbart.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who saves Monsieur Dambreuse's life?

2. Which character is implicated in a scheme involving carbines that are intercepted in Troyes?

3. Which character is arrested in Chapter 4 of Part Two and is charged with attempted assassination?

4. Why does Jacques Arnoux tell Marie that Rosanette is Frederic's mistress?

5. Who does Frederic run into at the palace during the looting?

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