Q 01/05

Which other famous novel is by the author of The Count of Monte Cristo?

A) Les Misérables

B) The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

C) The Three Musketeers

D) Around the World in Eighty Days

Answer · why

C) The Three Musketeers

The Three Musketeers. Alexandre Dumas did not invent its hero: he found d'Artagnan in a book of 1700 that passed itself off as the memoirs of a real c...

Q 02/05

How did The Count of Monte Cristo first reach its readers in the 1840s?

A) As a newspaper serial

B) As a stage play

C) As a three-volume book

D) As monthly pamphlets

Answer · why

A) As a newspaper serial

As a newspaper serial. The Journal des Débats ran it in instalments from August 1844 to January 1846, and it held readers so firmly that Dumas soon ad...

Q 03/05

What is the real name of the man who becomes the Count?

A) Fernand Mondego

B) Edmond Dantès

C) Gérard de Villefort

D) Maximilien Morrel

Answer · why

B) Edmond Dantès

He is only nineteen and about to be made captain of a merchant ship when the plot against him begins.

Q 04/05

What is the name of the merchant ship on which Dantès serves as first mate?

A) The Hirondelle

B) The Pharaon

C) The Jeune Amélie

D) The Aigle

Answer · why

B) The Pharaon

The Pharaon. Her captain died of brain fever on the voyage home, so the 19-year-old first mate brought her into port himself, which is why the owner w...

Q 05/05

On what real historical day does the novel begin?

A) The day of Waterloo

B) The day Louis XVI was executed

C) The day Napoleon left his exile on Elba

D) The day the Bastille fell

Answer · why

C) The day Napoleon left his exile on Elba

That launched the Hundred Days of 1815, and Dantès is carrying a letter from Elba for the Bonapartist Noirtier when he is denounced.