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  • 1. What is the meaning of the French letters "ABC" in the context of the Friends of the ABC?
A) The alliance
B) The avant-garde
C) The abased
D) The activists
  • 2. Which member of the Friends of the ABC represents the philosophy of the revolution?
A) Bahorel
B) Enjolras
C) Combeferre
D) Feuilly
  • 3. Who is Marius's closest companion and described as the centre of the group of Friends?
A) Courfeyrac
B) Lesgle
C) Joly
D) Grantaire
  • 4. Who is executed alongside Enjolras after the barricade falls?
A) Feuilly
B) Combeferre
C) Courfeyrac
D) Grantaire
  • 5. What is Feuilly's profession before he joins the Friends?
A) Fan maker
B) Churchwarden
C) Law student
D) Medical student
  • 6. Which member of the Friends of the ABC is a passionate Polonophile?
A) Lesgle
B) Joly
C) Feuilly
D) Bahorel
  • 7. What languages does Jean Prouvaire (Jehan) have knowledge of?
A) Russian, German, and Hebrew
B) Italian, Latin, Greek, and Hebrew
C) English, French, and Greek
D) Spanish, German, and Latin
  • 8. What is Joly's medical condition and personality trait?
A) He is deaf and aggressive
B) He is a hypochondriac and the happiest of the Friends
C) He is blind and depressed
D) He has amnesia and is very serious
  • 9. At what age does Lesgle begin balding?
A) Thirty
B) Twenty
C) Twenty-five
D) Thirty-five
  • 10. Who introduces Marius to the Friends of the ABC?
A) Mabeuf
B) Lesgle
C) Courfeyrac
D) Enjolras
  • 11. Who is Azelma?
A) Bishop Myriel's sister
B) The younger daughter of the Thénardiers
C) Fantine's friend and seamstress
D) The prioress of the Petit-Picpus convent
  • 12. What role does Bamatabois play later in the novel after harassing Fantine?
A) An officer in the National Guard
B) A prison guard in Toulon
C) A judge in Paris
D) Juror at Champmathieu's trial
  • 13. Who is (Mlle) Baptistine Myriel?
A) Bishop Myriel's sister
B) Valjean and Cosette's servant
C) Housekeeper of the Gorbeau House
D) Mother of Cosette
  • 14. Where is Blachevelle originally from?
A) Cahors
B) Montauban
C) Limoges
D) Toulouse
  • 15. Who is Madame Bougon?
A) Housekeeper of the Gorbeau House
B) Domestic servant to Bishop Myriel
C) Fantine's seamstress friend
D) Prioress of the Petit-Picpus convent
  • 16. What distinct item did Brevet use to wear?
A) A gold pocket watch
B) Knitted, checkered suspenders
C) A red woolen cap
D) A silver ring with a ruby
  • 17. How does the author describe Brujon?
A) An educated but arrogant nobleman
B) A slow and clumsy pickpocket
C) A large, menacing brute with a scar
D) A sprightly young fellow, very cunning and very adroit
  • 18. Why is Champmathieu initially misidentified as Valjean?
A) After being caught stealing apples
B) After escaping from the prison in Arras
C) After fighting with Javert in the street
D) After trying to rob a convent
  • 19. What did Chenildieu attempt to remove by putting his shoulder on a chafing dish full of embers?
A) His lifer's brand TFP
B) A scar from the Battle of Waterloo
C) A tattoo that read 1 Mars 1815
D) A birthmark on his left arm
  • 20. What was Cochepaille's occupation before becoming a smuggler and lifer?
A) Soldier in Napoleon's army
B) Churchwarden in Paris
C) Farmer from Montauban
D) Shepherd from the Pyrenees
  • 21. What specific tattoo does Cochepaille have on his arm?
A) TFP
B) A golden eagle
C) 1 Mars 1815
D) The letters ABC
  • 22. Who erroneously believes M. Thénardier saved his life at Waterloo?
A) Colonel Georges Pontmercy
B) Félix Tholomyès
C) M. Gillenormand
D) Mabeuf
  • 23. How does Colonel Pontmercy secretly look at Marius on Sundays?
A) He watches from the window of Gorbeau House
B) He hides behind a pillar in the church
C) He waits outside the university gates
D) He sits across from them at a café
  • 24. What title does Napoleon give to Colonel Pontmercy that the next regime refuses to recognize?
A) General
B) Marquis
C) Baron
D) Count
  • 25. With whom does Dahlia become romantically involved?
A) Fameuil
B) Blachevelle
C) Listolier
D) Tholomyès
  • 26. Where is Fameuil originally from?
A) Cahors
B) Limoges
C) Toulouse
D) Montauban
  • 27. How does Valjean (as M. Madeleine) save Fauchelevent?
A) From being crushed under a carriage
B) From drowning in the sewer
C) From freezing on the streets of Paris
D) From being arrested by Javert
  • 28. What job does Valjean secure for Fauchelevent at a Paris convent?
A) Gardener
B) Library assistant
C) Gatekeeper
D) Cook
  • 29. Who is the leader of Fantine's group of seamstress friends?
A) Azelma
B) Dahlia
C) Zéphine
D) Favourite
  • 30. Who is the mother of Marius?
A) Fantine
B) Mademoiselle Gillenormand
C) Magnon
D) M. Gillenormand's late daughter from another marriage
  • 31. What are the political leanings of Monsieur Gillenormand?
A) He is a radical republican
B) He is a monarchist
C) He is a Bonapartist
D) He has no interest in politics
  • 32. Who is Théodule Gillenormand?
A) Army officer and Marius's cousin
B) Marius's uncle
C) Marius's biological father
D) A student in the Friends of the ABC
  • 33. Where is Listolier originally from?
A) Montauban
B) Limoges
C) Toulouse
D) Cahors
  • 34. How does Mabeuf pay for a friend's medical care?
A) He borrows money from M. Gillenormand
B) He sells his churchwarden position
C) He sells his books and prints
D) He steals a purse from his yard
  • 35. What happens when Mabeuf finds a purse in his yard?
A) He gives it to Gavroche
B) He uses it to pay his rent
C) He keeps it to buy more plants
D) He takes it to the police
  • 36. How does Mabeuf die?
A) He is shot dead raising the flag atop the barricade
B) He dies of an epidemic in the streets
C) He is crushed under a carriage
D) He is executed by Enjolras for treason
  • 37. Who is Magloire?
A) Housekeeper of the Gorbeau House
B) Prioress of the Petit-Picpus convent
C) Domestic servant to Bishop Myriel and his sister
D) Toussaint's sister
  • 38. Whose children does Magnon use to replace her two dead sons to protect her income?
A) Fauchelevent's grandchildren
B) Gavroche and his brothers
C) Fantine's daughter Cosette
D) The Thénardiers' two youngest sons
  • 39. What is the real name of Mother Innocente, the prioress of the Petit-Picpus convent?
A) Toussaint
B) Baptistine Myriel
C) Marguerite de Blemeur
D) Madame Bougon
  • 40. Which bandits make up the quartet known as Patron-Minette?
A) Brujon, Bamatabois, Chenildieu, and Cochepaille
B) Montparnasse, Claquesous, Babet, and Gueulemer
C) Brevet, Champmathieu, Valjean, and Javert
D) Blachevelle, Listolier, Fameuil, and Tholomyès
  • 41. Under what alias does Claquesous join the revolution after escaping prison?
A) Le Cabuc
B) R
C) Bossuet
D) The Eagle
  • 42. Why does Enjolras execute Claquesous (acting as Le Cabuc)?
A) For revealing revolutionary secrets to Javert
B) For firing on civilians
C) For abandoning his post during the night
D) For trying to steal money from the barricade
  • 43. Who is Petit Gervais?
A) One of the Thénardiers' youngest sons
B) A young student in the Friends of the ABC
C) A prisoner in Toulon who knew Valjean
D) A travelling Savoyard boy who drops a coin
  • 44. What does Valjean do when Petit Gervais drops his coin?
A) He turns the boy in to the police
B) He helps him pick it up and gives him another coin
C) He steals the boy's bag and runs away
D) He places his foot on the coin and refuses to return it
  • 45. Who is Sister Simplice?
A) A famously truthful nun who lies to Javert to protect Valjean
B) The prioress of the Petit-Picpus convent
C) Bishop Myriel's sister
D) Housekeeper of the Gorbeau House
  • 46. Who is Cosette's biological father?
A) Colonel Georges Pontmercy
B) Fauchelevent
C) Félix Tholomyès
D) M. Gillenormand
  • 47. When does Félix Tholomyès abandon Fantine?
A) When Cosette is five years old
B) Before Cosette is even born
C) When Fantine falls ill
D) When their daughter is two years old
  • 48. What is a notable speech characteristic of Toussaint?
A) She speaks only in French and Latin
B) She speaks with a strong foreign accent
C) She whispers constantly
D) She has a slight stutter
  • 49. Who treats the Thénardiers' two youngest sons like brothers, unaware they are actually his siblings?
A) Gavroche
B) Montparnasse
C) Enjolras
D) Marius
  • 50. What do the Thénardiers' two youngest sons do after Gavroche's death?
A) They travel to America with their father
B) They join the Friends of the ABC at the barricade
C) They become servants at the Petit-Picpus convent
D) They retrieve bread tossed by a bourgeois man to geese in a fountain at the Luxembourg Garden
  • 51. With whom does Zéphine become romantically involved?
A) Listolier
B) Blachevelle
C) Tholomyès
D) Fameuil
  • 52. What is the primary color or association of Lesgle's nicknames?
A) The Lion
B) The Fox
C) The Eagle
D) The Wolf
  • 53. Which of the Friends of the ABC is described as a dandy and an idler from a peasant background?
A) Courfeyrac
B) Joly
C) Bahorel
D) Combeferre
  • 54. What is Enjolras passionately committed to?
A) The restoration of the French monarchy
B) Republican principles and the idea of progress
C) Religious philosophy and the Middle Ages
D) Accumulating wealth and property
  • 55. Who is described as a Romantic with knowledge of multiple ancient languages and an interest in the Middle Ages?
A) Courfeyrac
B) Combeferre
C) Jean Prouvaire
D) Feuilly
  • 56. What happened to Azelma and Éponine as they grew older?
A) They became nuns at the Petit-Picpus convent
B) They inherited a large fortune
C) They became impoverished
D) They became wealthy seamstress leaders
  • 57. Where does Azelma go at the end of the novel?
A) She joins a convent in Arras
B) She stays in Paris with Marius and Cosette
C) She moves to Montauban
D) She travels to America with her father
  • 58. In what year is Brevet serving time in the prison in Arras for an unknown crime?
A) 1830
B) 1815
C) 1840
D) 1823
  • 59. Who is the first person to claim that Champmathieu is really Valjean?
A) Chenildieu
B) Brevet
C) Javert
D) Cochepaille
  • 60. How long were Chenildieu and Valjean chain mates in Toulon?
A) Ten years
B) Five years
C) Twenty years
D) One year
  • 61. What was Colonel Pontmercy's military status under the regime that followed Napoleon?
A) He was made a full marshal
B) He was promoted to general
C) He was stripped of all military titles entirely
D) He was referred to only as a commandant
  • 62. Where was Colonel Pontmercy wounded?
A) Arras
B) Paris
C) Waterloo
D) Toulon
  • 63. Who helps Marius realize his father truly loved him?
A) M. Gillenormand
B) Théodule Gillenormand
C) Mabeuf
D) Courfeyrac
  • 64. Why did Magnon receive child support payments from M. Gillenormand?
A) To compensate for the loss of her home
B) For her work as his former servant
C) For her two illegitimate sons she claimed were fathered by him
D) As a pension for her service during the war
  • 65. Why is Magnon incorrectly arrested?
A) For involvement in the Gorbeau robbery
B) For hiding Valjean in the convent
C) For attacking Fantine in the street
D) For stealing apples from Champmathieu
  • 66. Who cares for Fantine on her sickbed?
A) Mademoiselle Baptistine
B) Sister Simplice
C) Madame Magloire
D) Mother Innocente
  • 67. Who are Valjean and Cosette's domestic servants in Paris?
A) Toussaint
B) Madame Bougon
C) Magnon
D) Madame Magloire
  • 68. Who is the author of Les Misérables?
A) Baron La Roncière
B) Eugène François Vidocq
C) Victor Hugo
D) Eugène Sue
  • 69. When was Les Misérables first published?
A) 31 March 1862
B) December 1846
C) 16 February 1833
D) 22 February 1846
  • 70. What is an alternative English title used for the novel?
A) The Miserable Victor
B) The French Convict
C) The Paris Rebels
D) The Wretched
  • 71. Which of the following is another alternative title for the novel?
A) The Dispossessed
B) The Bishop of Digne
C) The Noble Thief
D) The Streets of Paris
  • 72. What real-life person is Jean Valjean's character loosely based on?
A) Bienvenu de Miollis
B) Eugène François Vidocq
C) Léonie d'Aunet
D) Baron La Roncière
  • 73. When did Hugo visit the Bagne of Toulon and take notes?
A) 1839
B) 1861
C) 1829
D) 1845
  • 74. When did Hugo witness the arrest of a bread thief while a duchess watched from her coach?
A) 22 February 1846
B) 16 February 1833
C) December 1846
D) 31 March 1862
  • 75. In which town did Hugo spend several vacations?
A) Digne
B) Toulon
C) Montreuil-sur-Mer
D) Conciergerie
  • 76. What insurrection did Hugo participate in more directly in 1848?
A) The 1832 June Rebellion
B) The 1848 Paris insurrection
C) The French Revolution
D) The Battle of Waterloo
  • 77. Who might have inspired the character Gavroche?
A) A factory worker
B) A corrupt police officer
C) A street urchin
D) A bread thief
  • 78. When is Marius and Cosette's wedding night set?
A) 16 February 1833
B) December 1846
C) 31 March 1862
D) 22 February 1846
  • 79. What year did Hugo inspect Waterloo?
A) 1861
B) 1839
C) 1846
D) 1832
  • 80. What is another alternative title for Les Misérables mentioned in the text?
A) The Paris Barricade
B) The Victims
C) The Bishop's Grace
D) The Convict's Tale
  • 81. Who described the novel as 'one of the half-dozen greatest novels of the world'?
A) Victor Hugo
B) Upton Sinclair
C) The Italian publisher
D) An anonymous critic
  • 82. According to the preface mentioned in the text, what complicates a destiny that is divine?
A) Ignorance and misery
B) Divine intervention
C) Human fatality
D) Social progress
  • 83. What is the degradation of man caused by, according to the text's three problems of the age?
A) Poverty
B) Ignorance
C) Spiritual night
D) Starvation
  • 84. What is the ruin of women caused by?
A) Law and custom
B) Social asphyxia
C) Starvation
D) Poverty
  • 85. Towards the end of the novel, the overarching structure is described as a progress from evil to what?
A) Heaven
B) Truth
C) Good
D) Justice
  • 86. In the novel's overarching structure, the progress moves from injustice to what?
A) Truth
B) God
C) Life
D) Justice
  • 87. In the novel's overarching structure, the progress moves from falsehood to what?
A) Truth
B) Conscience
C) Good
D) Light
  • 88. In the novel's overarching structure, the progress moves from night to what?
A) God
B) Life
C) Heaven
D) Day
  • 89. In the novel's overarching structure, the progress moves from appetite to what?
A) Soul
B) Conscience
C) Duty
D) Good
  • 90. In the novel's overarching structure, the progress moves from corruption to what?
A) Life
B) Truth
C) God
D) Heaven
  • 91. In the novel's overarching structure, the progress moves from bestiality to what?
A) Justice
B) Conscience
C) Soul
D) Duty
  • 92. In the novel's overarching structure, the progress moves from hell to what?
A) God
B) Life
C) Heaven
D) Day
  • 93. In the novel's overarching structure, the progress moves from nothingness to what?
A) Heaven
B) God
C) Soul
D) Truth
  • 94. What is the starting point in the novel's overarching structure?
A) Night
B) Matter
C) Evil
D) The hydra
  • 95. What is the destination in the novel's overarching structure?
A) The soul
B) Heaven
C) God
D) The angel
  • 96. What creature is at the beginning of the novel's overarching structure?
A) The monster
B) The beast
C) The angel
D) The hydra
  • 97. What creature is at the end of the novel's overarching structure?
A) The angel
B) God
C) The hydra
D) The soul
  • 98. What is Jean Valjean's background?
A) Slave owner
B) Publisher
C) Emperor
D) Ex-convict
  • 99. How many books are in the entire novel?
A) 5
B) 48
C) 365
D) 655
  • 100. How many chapters are in the entire novel?
A) 365
B) 5
C) 48
D) 655,478
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