Q 01/05

Who wrote The Count of Monte Cristo?

A) Victor Hugo

B) Honoré de Balzac

C) Alexandre Dumas

D) Jules Verne

Answer · why

C) Alexandre Dumas

Much of the plotting came from his collaborating ghostwriter Auguste Maquet, who also worked with him on The Three Musketeers.

Q 02/05

Over which years was the novel serialised before appearing in book form?

A) 1830 to 1832

B) 1850 to 1852

C) 1860 to 1862

D) 1844 to 1846

Answer · why

D) 1844 to 1846

It ran in eighteen parts in a Paris newspaper and was one of the most widely read works of its day across Europe.

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 Marseillaise

D) The Aigle

Answer · why

B) The Pharaon

Its owner, Morrel, wants to make him captain, which is what provokes the jealousy of the ship's supercargo.

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.