Count Of Monte Cristo Test Questions – Flashcards
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In what year does the book take place
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1815
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who is Dantes fiancee
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Mercedes
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who is offered the captain position on the Pharaon
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Edmond Dantes
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what happened to Dantes father when he is away
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He was starting to starve because Caderousse came to him and told him that he owed him money so he had to pay Caderousse
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who is in love with Dantes fiancee
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Fernand
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what do Danglars, Fernand and Caderousse discuss in the restaurant
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Dantes and Mercedes wedding
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What important event happens at Dantes's betrothal feast?
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Policemen come in and arrested Edmond Dantes.
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Whose betrothal feast does the reader witness in chapter 5
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The members of the highest stratum of Marseilles society
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Why is the betrothal feast in chapter 5 interrupted
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Because of an alleged Bonapartist plot being discovered having to do with Edmond Dantes
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Explain Dantes's excuse for going to Elba
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That his now late Captain had asked him to go there and deliver a package while on his deathbed
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When does Villefort change his mind about detaining Dantes? Why does he change his mind?
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When Dantes gives him the letter that he was told to deliver, and he changes his mind because the letter is a conspiracy plot set to be mailed to his father
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Where do the gendarmes take Dantes
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Chatea d'if
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At the end of chapter 6, where is Dantes taken? Why?
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To the dungeon because they think he is a madman
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King Louis XVIII is a minor character in the novel, but he makes an impact in the background story line. What important character visits him? What message does this character bring the king
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Monsieur de Villefort and he tells him that there is a conspiracy that is threatening his reign and that one of the main players in the conspiracy is Edmond Dantes
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How does Villefort change Dantes's story?
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He told him that Dantes knew what was in the letter and that he did not know who it went to.
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What happened to Dantes father while Dantes was in the Chateau D'if
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he falls ill and dies
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While in the dungeon in solitude, Dantes makes a desperate decision. What is it? What keeps Dantes from carrying out this decision
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He decides to commit suicide, but he relizes that there is still hope when he hears another prisoner trying to escape.
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Who is the man Dantes finds? What rumors have been told of this man
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Abbè Faria it has been told that he is mad.
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Why is the Abbe Faria imprisoned
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For coming up with the plan that Napolean stole.
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What does the Abbe do with his time in jail? How are these things possible
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He write, reads, learns, and makes told and he does this with metal from his bed, t shirts, sut and more.
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Explain how the Abbe helps Dantes figure out how his enemies conspired against him
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He listens to his story and helps him realize the people that would have benefitted from him being in jail, then after hearing them he puts it all together.
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After Abbe helps Dantes discover his enemies, the Abbe says, "... I have instilled in your heart a feeling that wasn't there before: vengeance." Explain the importance of this quotation
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Now the reason that Edmond Dantes wants to get out of prison is to enact revenge on his enemies
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What does the Abbe teach Dantes?
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He teaches him languages, science, math and more
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Explain Abbe Faria's illness. What happens right before the great escape?
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Abbe Faria has epilepsy, and right before the escape he has a caesar
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Why does Dantes think that the Abbe is mad
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He thinks that he is mad because he claims to have some great treasure which no one believes him to have.
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Who is Cardinal Spada
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The rich Spada who is killed by the Pope
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Who is Pope Alexander VI
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The corrupt Pope who kills the previous pope and Cardinal Spada
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Who is Caesar Borgia
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Pope Alexander the VI son
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Who is Caesar Spada
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The last of the Spadas and the one that Abbe Faria worked for
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Explain how the rich Spada family becomes poor.
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Cardinal Spada left a secret will and hid his treasure and none of the other Spadas found it
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Explain how Abbe Faria discovers his fortune
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When his lights go out he tried to light what he thought was piece of scrap paper, but it had invisible ink on it telling of the treasure.
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What happens to the Abbe after his third attack
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he dies
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How does Dantes escape from the Chateau d'lf
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He switches himself with Abbe Faria and escapes as a dead man.
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Who rescues Dantes? What story does Dantes tell the sailors of the Jeune-Amelie
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A boat housing pirates and smugglers including Jacopo and he told them that he was a sailor and that his ship had wrecked and that he was the only surviving member of the crew and he filled it out with accurate descriptions of Naples and Malta.
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How does Dantes get to stay on the Isle of Monte Cristo?
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He tells them that he has fallen ill in order to stay on the island.
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How does Dantes reward Jacopo
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With a new boat and enough money to live for the rest of his life and to hire a new crew.
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What happens to Dantes's father and Mercedes?
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Dantes father dies and Mercedes goes missing.
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How does Dantes get the treasure off the Isle of Monte Cristo?
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He takes it in his new yacht in a secret safe that he had specially made.
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What is Caderousse's new profession
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He is now an inn keeper
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Who visits Caderousse? Who do you think this visitor is?
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Abbe Busoni, but it is really Dantes
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What information does the visitor receive about the following people: Dantes's father, Morrel, Fernand, Mercedes, Danglars?
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Danglars became a banker and is rich, Fernand and Mercedes are married, Dantes father is dead.
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What does Caderousse receive for this information
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A large diamond that is worth 50 thousand francs.
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What does the visitor learn about Dantes's enemies and their betrayal?
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He tells them how everybody betrayed him and whats going on with all the people that betrayed him
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Who do you think is the representative of Thomson and French
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Edmond Dantes
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Who is Julie
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Morrels daughter
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Who is Emmanuel
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He used to work for Morrel and is dating/engaged to Julie
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What has happened to Morrel and his business? What has happened to the Pharaon
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He is in a lot of debt and the Pharon was in terrible shape and sunk.
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What does the representative do for Morrel
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Gives him extra time to pay of his debts.
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What is Morrel planning to do
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He plans to kill himself.
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Who is Maximilien
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Morrels son
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Who is Sinbad the Sailor, and what does he do?
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It is Dantes and he pays Morrels debt and gives them them the Pharon.
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How is Morrel "saved" at the end of chapter 19? Be specific
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He gets a letter from his daughter saying that she has found enough money to pay off his debt
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Who are the two young French gentlemen mentioned in chapter 20? What is the setting?
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Albert and Franz and they meet and are planning to go to the Piazza del Poplo.
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What problem do they have? Who helps them with this problem?
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They dont want to marry who they are engaged to and the count helps them with this problem.
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Who is Signore Pastrini
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Signor Pastrini is the owner of the Hotel de Londres in Rome who arranges for the meeting between the Count of Monte Cristo and Albert de Morcerf
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Who is Monsieur Bertuccio?
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The Counts new servant.
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What are the Count and company planning on watching at the Piazza del Poplo
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An execution
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To whom do you think the Count is referring in his words to Franz on page 115 when he says, "If a man has tortured and killed your father, your mother, your sweetheart... do you think society has given you sufficient reparation because the blade of the guillo¬tine has passed between the murderer's trapezius and his occipital bone, because the man who made you undergo long years of mental and emotional suffering has un¬dergone a few seconds of physical pain?" What does this say about the Count
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Caderousse and Fernand this shows that the count isn't interested in killed them that he wants them to be torture like he was.
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What happens when Peppino is set free
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He dies
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What are Franz's and Albert's reactions to the execution?
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they are both upset and distraught
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Who has taken hold of Albert de Morcerf
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Luigi Vampa
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How do the bandits respond to the Count's arrival?
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They immediately give Albert back while profusely apologizing
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When does the Count plan to visit Paris?
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In a few months
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Name and describe the guests at the Morcerf party.
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Lucien, the secretary to the minister of the interior, Beuachamp is a journalist, a rich man named The Baron of Chateau-Renaud and they are all like Albert.
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What are some of the Count's eccentricities?
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He takes drugs and he keeps them in a giant hollowed out emerald.
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How does Mercedes respond to seeing the Count? Why?
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She realizes it is Edmond Dantes and she becomes slightly frightened because she trusts Fernand who told him Edmond was dead.
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Where is the Count's new residence
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Villeforts dads old house.
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Where is the country house that the Count bought located? Bertuccio's response to the news?
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Bertuccio kind of freaks out
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What is Bertuccio's secret?
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He saw Caderousse commit a crime and box baby story
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Explain the crime that Bertuccio discusses that involves Caderousse
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he saw him trying to sell a jewl to a man, then caderousses wife killed the man and Caderousse killed his wife
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What happened to Assunta?
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Benedetto puts her over a fire and force her to talk.
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Describe Danglars's meeting with the Count
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The Count rides up on two of Danglars old horses which he purchased for much more than they are truly worth and gets Danglars to give him unlimited credit at his bank.
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What does the Count do to get on Madame Danglars's good side
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He gives her back her horses.
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How does the Count save Heloise de Villefort?
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while going out with her horses they go wild, conveniently next to the Counts house and his servan Ali who is amazing with horses saves them and gets the horses to calm down
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Describe the Count's conversation with Villefort's wife
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They talk about poison, plants, chemistry, medicine, etc.
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Describe Haydee
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Haydee is the female slave that the Count bought
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Whom does the Count visit in chapter 28? Why does the Count leave so abruptly
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Max Morrel and he leaves so abruptly because Morrel knows it was him who gave him the money.
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Whom does the Count visit in chapter 29? Explain the point the Count is trying to make in his conversation with his host
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He goes to the Villeforts and tries to make a point about why the two should be wed
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Who visits the Count in chapter 30? Explain the visitor's view of his relationship with Eugenie Danglars
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Albert and Lucien Debray and Albert doesn't exactly want to marry Eugenie because he thinks that she is too smart and pretty for him.
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Who are Monsieur and Viscount Cavalcanti
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Major Calvacanti is a criminal pretentending to be Major Calvacanti and Andre is Benedetto pretending to be Andre, Calvacantis long lost son.
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What two secret lovers do we meet in chapter 32?
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Maximillien and Valentine
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Whom is Valentine supposed to marry
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Franz d' Epinay
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Whom is Eugenie supposed to marry
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Albert
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What reason does Valentine give for her stepmother's opposition of marriage
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Mrs. Villefort wants Eduard to get all of the inheritance.
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Who is Barrios
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Barrios is a servant
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Describe Nortier's condition
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He is paralyzed and has had a stroke, but is really being slowly poisoned by Mrs. Villefort
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How does Nortier respond to the news of Valentine's marriage? What does he do
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He is furious about the marriage because Franz's dad is loyal to the king and Nortier is loyal to Napolean.
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What does Villefort decide to do as a direct reaction to Nortier's response
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He decides that he is going to speed up the wedding before the will is written
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What story does the Count tell his guests as he gives them a tour of his house in Auteuil?
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He tells them that he found the remains of a baby at the house.
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What are Madame Danglars and Villefort's responses
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They are freaking out.
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Who is Benedetto's partner?
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Caderousse
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Discuss Danglars and Madam Danglars's conversation.
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They talk about their bonds and danglars says that Madam Danglars owes him money.
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What does Danglars disclose about the futures of Fernand and Eugenie?
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Fernand is now out of Danglars picture and he says that Eugenie has never been engaged to alber and in fact she is sort of engaged to someone else.
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What new information does Villefort disclose to Madame Danglars
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He tells him his version of the box baby story and he tells her that their child is still alive
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Who dies in chapter 41?
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mr. St Meran
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What are Maximilien's and Valentine's plans?
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To run away together
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Maximilien overhears a conversation between the doctor and Villefort. Discuss the implications of the conversation.
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He hears how Renees mother was poison and they imply that they are going to blame Valentime.
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Why is the wedding between Valentine and Franz called off
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Nortier tells Franz that he was the one that killed his father
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What excuse does Danglars give Fernand for calling off the engagement between Albert and Eugenie
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Danglar says that something important came up and he doesn't really give any conclusive answer.
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Who dies in chapter 44? Who is accused of the murders?
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Barrios and Valentine is accused of the murders
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What is Caderousse's plan
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He plans to rob the Count
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What is contained in the two letters the Count makes Caderousse write
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Caderousse wrote 2 letters. the first letter is addressed to baron dangler and states that the man he plans to make his son in law is an escaped convict named benedetto. the second letter states that the man who stabbed him is benedetto, caderousses fellow prisoner
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Where will the Count take Albert
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To his house in Normandy
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Describe the effects surrounding Fernand Mondego and Ali Pasha
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Fernand said he would help Ali by helping his country so Ali helped him and then Fernand sold Haydee and Ali Pashas wife.
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Whom does Albert first accuse for his father's misfortune
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The Count
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Albert challenges the Count to what
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He challenges him to a duel.
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Who visits the Count? What does he or she ask of him?
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Mercedes and she asks him to spare his son.
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What is the outcome of the Albert/Count conflict?
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Albert apologizes to the Count and shakes his hand.
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What does the Count offer Mercedes? Does she accept
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Money that Edmond Dantes was going to use to start him and Mercedes life together, and she does accept.
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Describe the meeting between the Count and Mondego. What does this conversation lead Mondego to do
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Fernand comes to see the Count to talk to him about the duel and he says that he has always hated him and Fernand realizes that the Count was also the priest so he asks who he really is the Count puts on his sailor suit so he realizes its Edmond Dantes and rins away screaming. When he gets to his house he sees Mercedes and Albert leaving him so he runs upstairs and kills himself.
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Who will help Maximilien and Valentine?
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The Count
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Describe the events leading up to Cavalcanti escape.
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Eugenie runs away so he is no longer engaged to her and Caderousse writes a letter saying that it is really Benedetto.
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What are Eugenie's plans?
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She cuts her hair and pretends to be a boy so she can run off with louise
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Describe Cavalcanti's capture.
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He runs away and goes to a hotel and he sees Louise and Eugenie and they scream so cops come and arrest him
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Who is the murderer in the Villefort home?
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Mrs. Villefort
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Who dies in chapter 60
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Valentine
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What is Danglars planning
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He is planning on running away with the money for the hospital
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What is Maximilien planning to do? Who stops him? How does this person stop Maximilien?
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He is planning to kill himself and the Count stops him by saying that he is Edmond Dantes and he helped Mr. Morrel.
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Describe the main idea expressed in Danglars's letter to Madame Danglars.
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He was blaming his misfortune on her and telling her that he is leaving her.
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Who visits Benedetto in jail? What do you think he was planning to tell Benedetto be¬fore they were interrupted
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Bertuccio and he was going to tell him that Villefort was his father.
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Why does Villefort drink the hot chocolate that his wife sends him even though he thinks it is poisoned
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Because he doesn't even care he really has nothing left to lose
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What does Villefort ask his wife to do? Based on what you have deduced about Villefort's character, how did you react to this
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He asks her to commit suicide and I wasn't that surprised because he is a terrible person
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What is revealed in the Benedetto trial
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That villefort is his dad
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As Villefort looks at the fan Madame de Villefort left behind In the carriage, what does he realize about his actions earlier that day
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He realizes that everything is his fault
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Who else has died in the Villefort house
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Eduord and Madame Villefort
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Describe the message written by Madame de Villefort
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She says that she killed everyone because she is a good mother and a good mother never leaves without her son
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What does the Count realize at the end of this chapter?
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he starts feeling slightly guilty and like he may be doing the wrong things when he finds out that Eduord died
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Describe Villefort's state of mind at the end of chapter 67. What proof do you have to support your answer
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He is insane and we know that because he is searching for box baby when he already knows that his is alive.
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Whom does the Count visit in Marseilles
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Mercedes
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Why does Dantes feel he must return to the Chateau d'lf? What does he realize at the Chateau
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He starts having doubts of why he does what he does and he gets there and stops because he remembers what he went through there
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Who has "captured" Danglars?
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Peppino and the other bandits
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How is Danglars being tortured?
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by not being given food unless he pays an enormous amount of money for it
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If one were to rank Dantes's enemies from least guilty to most guilty, one might choose Danglars as the most guilty enemy. Why does the Count spare Danglars's life if he is the most guilty?
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Because Danglars has nothing so what would be the point of killing him because he is being basically tortured more in this life then he would be if he were killed.
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Describe the events leading up to Maximilien's "suicide
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The count had him sent to the island of monte cristo and tells him not to kill himself because of all Edmond dantes has done for the Morrel family.
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What explanation does the Count give Maximilien for his strange behavior
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You need to have experience it the worst so that you can have it being the best.
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What is the significance of the last words in the novel, "Wait and hope
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It means that if you just wait and hope good things will come to you
