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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. What is Pellerin going to ask the government to create when Frederic sees him with a column of followers in the Latin Quarter?
(a) A National Museum.
(b) A Committee for Public Safety.
(c) An Arts Workshop.
(d) A National Park.

2. What does Monsieur Dambreuse propose Frederic announce his candidacy for?
(a) The Constituent Assembly.
(b) Head of the National Guard.
(c) Mayor of Paris.
(d) The Committee for Public Safety.

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

4. What does Dussardier consider to be the source of all evil?
(a) Money.
(b) Desire.
(c) Power.
(d) Fame.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Frederic and Rosanette dine with Cisy and Hussonet after the races?

2. Who does Frederic ask to be his second in the duel against Cisy?

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

4. Why does Madame Dambreuse write three letters to Cécile?

5. Who is the chairman of the Club de l'Intelligence?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Deslauriers go to visit Marie Arnoux? What news does he give her? What is her reaction?

2. What significant political event takes place at the end of Chapter 6 of Part Two? What effect does this event have on the people of Paris?

3. How does the relationship between Frederic and Rosanette change at the end of Part Two? Where does he take her at the end of Chapter 6?

4. What decision to Frederic make about the Arnouxs upon returning to Paris in Chapter 6 of Part Two? What request hampers his plan?

5. What is happening in the streets of Paris in Chapter 1 of Part Three? What is Frederic's reaction to what he sees?

6. What does Mademoiselle Vatnaz believe the role of the woman to be? What is Rosanette's position on the subject?

7. What happens to Marie Arnoux's son Eugene at the end of Chapter 6 of Part Two? How does Marie interpret this event?

8. What does Frederic do with the fifteen thousand francs he requested from his solicitor to invest in Deslauriers' project? How does he explain his inability to invest this sum to Deslauriers?

9. What effect does Frederic's paying Rosanette's IOU to Mademoiselle Vatnaz have on the relationship between him and Rosanette? What does he begin to notice about her?

10. What does Frederic think when he sees how affected Louise Roque is by his visit? Why is Monsieur Roque interested in seeing his daughter marry Frederic?

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