SparkNotes: The Count of Monte Cristo: Quiz

1. What is Edmond Dantès’s profession at the beginning of the novel?

(A) Soldier

(B) Tailor

(C) Sailor

(D) Lawyer

2. Who is the first person Dantès visits when he reaches Marseilles?

(A) His father

(B) Caderousse

(C) Mercédès

(D) Danglars

3. Which of the following statements is closest to the truth?

(A) Fernand Mondego envies Dantès’s successful career, while Danglars envies Dantès’s relationship with Mercédès

(B) Fernand Mondego envies Dantès’s relationship with Mercédès, while Danglars envies Dantès’s successful career

(C) Fernand Mondego envies Dantès’s close relationship with his father, while Danglars envies Dantès’s close relationship with Caderousse

(D) Fernand Mondego envies Dantès’s close relationship with Caderousse, while Danglars envies Dantès’s close relationship with his father

4. What does Danglars write in his letter to the public prosecutor?

(A) That Dantès is a soldier in Napoleon Bonaparte’s army

(B) That Dantès is a powerful Jacobin

(C) That Dantès is a revolutionary spy

(D) That Dantès is bearing a letter that contains a revolutionary Bonapartist plot

5. Why does Villefort sentence Dantès to life in prison?

(A) Because he hates all Jacobins

(B) Because he is secretly a revolutionary and is worried this fact will come to light

(C) Because his father is the revolutionary plotter to whom Dantès’s letter was addressed, and Villefort is worried this fact will come to light

(D) Because he truly believes Dantès has broken the law

6. How does Dantès figure out that he has been framed?

(A) He figures it out himself after discovering his accusation letter

(B) Villefort tells him

(C) Abbé Faria deduces it

(D) None of the above

7. Why does everyone believe that Abbé Faria is insane?

(A) Because he claims to have an enormous hidden treasure

(B) Because he believes so strongly in a united Italy

(C) Because he remains a priest even though he does not believe in God

(D) Because he refuses to speak to any of the other prisoners

8. Why does Dantès consider Faria his second father?

(A) Because Faria saves his life

(B) Because Faria educates him

(C) Because Faria makes him wealthy

(D) All of the above

9. How does Dantès escape from prison?

(A) He hides in Faria’s shroud

(B) He digs his way out using Faria’s tools

(C) He buys his way out with his enormous fortune

(D) He tunnels out of his cell

10. Where is the Faria’s fortune hidden?

(A) In Faria’s old house in Rome

(B) Beneath the prison

(C) On the island of Monte Cristo

(D) In the Vatican

11. Why does Dantès give Caderousse a valuable diamond?

(A) Because Caderousse seems to regret his part in Dantès’s downfall

(B) Because he knows that this windfall will only lead to more heinous acts on Caderousse’s part, and he is eager to catch him doing some foul deed

(C) Because Caderousse agrees to give the diamond to Louis Dantès

(D) He does not give him the diamond; Caderousse’s wife steals it from Dantès

12. When Dantès saves Monsieur Morrel from ruin, how does he sign his letter?

(A) The Count of Monte Cristo

(B) Sinbad the Sailor

(C) Lord Wilmore

(D) Edmond Dantès

13. Who is the Abbé Busoni?

(A) An Italian priest who acts as confessor to Abbé Faria

(B) An Italian priest who acts as tutor to Abbé Faria

(C) An Italian priest who recognizes Dantès as a convict but does not turn him over to the authorities

(D) An alter ego of Dantès

14. How does Dantès win Albert de Morcerf’s trust?

(A) By saving him from bandits

(B) By lending him his carriage

(C) By telling him that he once knew his father

(D) By saving Mercédès from financial ruin

15. Why does Eugénie Danglars not want to marry Albert de Morcerf?

(A) Because she despises men

(B) Because she wants to be a free and independent artist

(C) Because she is in love with her friend, Louise d’Armilly

(D) All of the above

16. Why does Valentine Villefort not want to marry Franz d’Epinay?

(A) Because his father was a loyal royalist

(B) Because her grandfather despises him

(C) Because she is in love with Maximilian Morrel

(D) All of the above

17. What do Julie and Emmanuel prove to Dantès?

(A) That true gratitude is possible

(B) That it is possible to be satisfied with one’s life

(C) Both of the above

(D) None of the above

18. Whose greed does Dantès exploit?

(A) Danglars’s

(B) Bertuccio’s

(C) Benedetto’s

(D) Albert’s

19. Which of the following people does not play a part in the revenge scheme against Villefort?

(A) Signor Bertuccio

(B) Benedetto

(C) Madame de Villefort

(D) Maximilian Morrel

20. How does Haydée help bring about Fernand Mondego’s downfall?

(A) By seducing him and then blackmailing him

(B) By seducing his son

(C) By testifying against him

(D) By stealing his money

21. Why does Albert de Morcerf refuse to fight a duel with Dantès?

(A) Because he is a coward

(B) Because he refuses to fight a duel he knows he will lose

(C) Because his mother tells him Dantès’s story

(D) Because Eugénie begs him not to

22. Why do Albert and Mercédès abandon all of their wealth?

(A) Because they want nothing to do with a fortune that has been acquired through treachery

(B) Because they have both sworn to donate all of their wealth to God if Albert survives his duel with Dantès

(C) Because Dantès offers them a larger fortune if they consent to leaving the old one behind

(D) Because they are both planning on entering religious orders that denounce earthly possessions

23. Why does Maximilian long to kill himself?

(A) Because his father has been dishonored

(B) Because he has lost his fortune

(C) Because he believes that Valentine is dead

(D) Because his sister, Julie, has married his enemy

24. Why does Dantès allow Maximilian to believe that Valentine is dead?

(A) To punish him for the sins of his father

(B) Because Dantès also believes that she is dead

(C) Because he believes one can only know true happiness after knowing true despair

(D) To keep him focused on his military service

25. How does Dantès learn to feel normal human emotions again?

(A) By rekindling his love for Mercédès

(B) By acting as a father to Maximilian

(C) By allowing himself to fall in love with Haydée

(D) He never regains his normal human emotions