Les Miserables Practice Quiz

1. Who is the author of Les Miserables?

2. Who is the main character?

3. How long was he in prison?

4. Why was he in prison?

5. Why did his term in prison keep on being extended?

6. What is the color of his pass?

7. Who welcomes him in for dinner and a night’s rest?

8. Who is Madame Magloire?

9. Who is Petit Gervais?

10. Who are the Thenardiers?

11. What little girl is left with the Thenardiers?

12. Who leaves the girl?

13. Who is Father Madeleine?

14. Father Madeleine is later called --------Madeleine.

15. He is later called Monsieur --- -----.

16. How did he become so rich?

17. What is M----------sur M-----------?

18. The mayor became very sad when he hears of whose death?

19. The mayor gives money to any Savoyard who passes through town. Why?

20. Who is the mayor?

21. Who is the inspector who mistrusts the mayor?

22. Whom does Monsieur Madeleine save from being crushed to death?

23. Who says he only knows of one man who could lift such a load?

24. Who is that one strong man?

25. Madeleine gets a job for Fauchelevent in Paris as a -------.

26. Javert confesses what to the Mayor?

27. Who is Champmathieu?

28. Explain the Mayor’s horrible dilemma.

29. Who are Brevet, Chenildieu, and Cochepaille?

30. Whom does Fantine want to see before she dies?

31. Who comes to arrest the Mayor?

32. The Mayor asks for three days to do what?

33. How does Sister Simplice save the Mayor?

34. Why does Javert believe Sister Simplice?

35. Jean Valjean goes to Laffitte’s for what reason?

36. What happens aboard the Orion?

37. Jean takes Cossette to what city?

38. What does Jean keep in the lapel of his coat?

39. Who spies on Jean as he is ripping open his coat?

40. To escape from Javert, Jean has to go up a ---- and then pull -------- up with a ----.

41. They end up in the garden of a what?

42. Who turns out to be the gardener there?

43. Explain how the convent is the "most dangerous" and yet also the "safest" place for Jean.

44. Jean pretends to be whose brother?

45. Two houses of --- have saved Jean Valjean.v 46. Jean takes the name Ultimus ------------.

47. Who is M. Gillenormand?

48. Who is his grandson?

49. Who is Colonel Baron Pontmercy?

50. Why does Marius never see his father?

51. Why, at age 18, is Marius finally sent to see his father?

52. At what battle was Pontmercy made a baron?

53. By whom?

54. What sergeant saved Pontmercy’s life at that battle?

55. Who is Theodule Gillenormand?

56. Theodule finds that Marius is not visiting a lass but a ----.

57. Who is Courfeyrac?

58. Marius pays the rent for the Jondrettes. What is the family’s real name?

59. Whom does Marius name Mademoiselle Lenoire?

60. What name does he give to Jean?

61. What is the Luxembourg?

62. What is left behind, with the initials U.F., on the bench?

63. What does Marius then think her first name is?

64. Who lives next door to the Jondrettes and is able to spy on them?

65. Why does M. Jondrette put a hole in a chair, order a window broken, have the fire put out, have his wife go to bed, etc.?

66. What is a fiacre?

67. When Jondrette tells LeBlanc that he is really Thenardier, what is Marius’ dilemma?

68. Thenardier refers to the Lark? Who is that?

69. Who uses the name Urbain Fabre?

70. Who, ironically, shows up to stop the killing of M. LeBlanc?

71. Who is the elder of the Thenardier daughters?

72. Who helps Marius track down M. LeBlanc’s "daughter"?

73. What does Cosette call "the inseparable"?

74. Who is Toussaint?

75. What major character is in the National Guard?

76. Why is Jean saddened to see Cosette growing beautiful?

77. Who left what and for whom on a bench in the garden?

78. What is the barricade?

79. Who goes there disguised as a man?

80. Who is Gavroche?

81. What enemy is captured at the barricade and told he will soon die?

82. Who shields Marius from a bullet and dies?

83. She requests that Marius do what after she dies?

84. Before she dies, she gives a letter to Marius from whom?

85. Who intercepts Marius’ letter to Cosette, carried by Gavroche?

86. Who is Gavroche the son of?

87. What "favor" does Enjolras bestow on Jean?

88. What does Jean do instead?

89. Whom does Jean carry and where?

90. Who has the key to get out of the sewer?

91. What does he first rip off a piece of?

92. Who captures Jean shortly after he comes out of the sewer?

93. What one favor does Jean ask of that man?

94. Where is Marius taken?

95. Strangely, Javert leaves and then does what?

96. Who gets married?

97. What does Jean do with all his money?

98. What confession does Jean make to Marius?

99. Who says, "To live, once I stole a loaf of bread; to-day, to live, I will not steal a name"?

100. Who thinks Jean stole from Madeleine and killed Javert?

101. Who comes to bribe Marius by telling "tales" about Jean?

102. Why does his attempt backfire?

103. Who says, "He who was carrying the corpse was Jean Valjean; he who had the key is now speaking to you, and the piece of the coat ——"?

104. Why does Marius not turn in this liar?

105. Thenardier goes to ------- and becomes a ------.

106. Who dies at the end of the book?