Q 01/05

The Three Musketeers, published in 1844, was written by which French author?

A) Honoré de Balzac

B) Alexandre Dumas

C) Victor Hugo

D) Jules Verne

Answer · why

B) Alexandre Dumas

It was the first of his three d'Artagnan Romances and was written with the help of ghostwriter Auguste Maquet.

Q 02/05

The young hero d'Artagnan leaves his family in which region of France to seek his fortune in Paris?

A) Normandy

B) Brittany

C) Provence

D) Gascony

Answer · why

D) Gascony

His hot Gascon temper gets him into three duels on his first day in the city.

Q 03/05

Which three musketeers befriend d'Artagnan and are known as 'the three inseparables'?

A) Porthos, Planchet and Athos

B) Athos, Porthos and Aramis

C) Athos, Rochefort and Aramis

D) Aramis, Tréville and Porthos

Answer · why

B) Athos, Porthos and Aramis

D'Artagnan is not actually a musketeer for most of the book; he serves in the less prestigious King's Guards under Des Essarts.

Q 04/05

Which powerful churchman is the musketeers' chief antagonist, scheming against Queen Anne?

A) Cardinal Wolsey

B) Cardinal Richelieu

C) Cardinal Mazarin

D) Cardinal Fleury

Answer · why

B) Cardinal Richelieu

Dumas gives him a personal motive too: he resents the queen for rebuffing his advances.

Q 05/05

What mark, branded on Milady de Winter's shoulder, reveals her criminal past?

A) A fleur-de-lis

B) A cross

C) The letter M

D) A crown

Answer · why

A) A fleur-de-lis

The executioner who branded her reveals at her trial that she had seduced and abandoned his brother, a priest.