Q 01/05

The author of The Three Musketeers also wrote which revenge tale about the wronged sailor Edmond Dantès?

A) Les Misérables

B) The Count of Monte Cristo

C) The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

D) The Phantom of the Opera

Answer · why

B) The Count of Monte Cristo

The Count of Monte Cristo followed The Three Musketeers within months in 1844; Dumas named a château after it, then sank so far into debt that he had ...

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

Gascony's hot temper is on show at once: his first morning among the musketeers ends with three duels booked for that same afternoon, against the men ...

Q 03/05

D'Artagnan serves as a cadet in which company before finally earning a musketeer's tunic?

A) The Cardinal's Guards

B) The King's Guards

C) The Queen's Guards

D) The Paris Watch

Answer · why

B) The King's Guards

The King's Guards took him as a cadet because the musketeers required an apprenticeship first; his three friends stood his guard duty with him, so the...

Q 04/05

In The Three Musketeers, which powerful churchman is the heroes' chief antagonist, scheming against the queen?

A) Cardinal Wolsey

B) Cardinal Richelieu

C) Cardinal Mazarin

D) Cardinal Fleury

Answer · why

B) Cardinal Richelieu

Cardinal Richelieu gets a private motive from Dumas as well as a political one: he had loved the queen, and could not forgive her for turning him down...

Q 05/05

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

A) A fleur-de-lis

B) A Maltese cross

C) The letter M

D) A royal crown

Answer · why

A) A fleur-de-lis

A fleur-de-lis was burned into her by the executioner of Lille himself, who confesses it at her trial: she had led his brother into theft and ruin, an...