The Count of Monte Cristo

Multiple Choice and Long Answer questions create ideal opportunities for whole-text review, unit exam, or summative assessments.

Multiple Choice

1. Which event functions most clearly as a turning point in Edmond’s beliefs about his mission?

A) Noirtier’s stroke

B) Valentine’s poisoning

C) Mercédès leaving Paris

D) Edouard’s death

2. Who is the only person who recognizes Edmond in his guise as the Count of Monte Cristo?

A) Danglars

B) Mme. Villefort

C) Mercédès

D) Caderousse

3. What do Fernand’s record in the military, his treatment of Ali Pasha’s last request, and his role in mailing Danglars’s letter have in common?

A) They demonstrate his hatred for Edmond.

B) They involve betrayal and double-dealing.

C) They demonstrate his monetary greed.

D) They involve self-preservation through cowardice.

4. What do Edmond, Fernand, and Benedetto have in common?

A) They all adopt noble titles as they reinvent themselves.

B) They are all motivated by a desire for revenge.

C) They have each been in love with Mercédès at some point.

D) They are misled by flawed father figures.

5. Which character most clearly functions as a second father to Edmond?

A) M. Noirtier

B) Pasha Ali

C) M. Morrel

D) Abbé Faria

6. Which of the following characters does not contemplate suicide during the novel?

A) M. Morrel

B) Maximilien

C) Debray

D) Edmond

7. Which of the following characters most clearly functions as a son to Edmond?

A) Maximilien

B) Albert

C) Benedetto

D) Edouard

8. What do Abbé Feria, Noirtier, Edmond, Maximilien, Benedetto, and Valentine have in common?

A) They work hard to educate themselves to get ahead.

B) They are each heartbroken by romantic betrayal.

C) They survive near-death experiences.

D) They are persecuted for their political beliefs.

9. Which is the most reasonable interpretation of what drugs represent in this novel?

A) The temptation presented by status and money

B) The way that power can be used for both good and evil

C) The evil inherent in attempting to play God

D) The inevitably unsatisfactory nature of revenge

10. What makes the novel’s setting particularly appropriate to its action?

A) It is a period when powerful outside forces frequently impact people’s lives and most people see large gains in their standards of living.

B) It is a period when most people see large gains in their standards of living and religious influences are becoming less important.

C) It is a period when religious influences are becoming less important and rapid status changes are possible.

D) It is a period when rapid status changes are possible and powerful outside forces frequently impact people’s lives.

11. Which of the following is not an alias that Edmond uses?

A) Sinbad the Sailor

B) Lord Wilmore

C) Abbé Busoni

D) The Count de Morcerf

12. Which of the novel’s motifs is most supported by Edmond’s age when he finally escapes from prison?

A) Edmond as Christ figure

B) Edmond as vampire

C) Edmond as Satan figure

D) Edmond as Faust figure

13. Which of the novel’s thematic concerns is most clearly supported by Edmond’s reactions to the death of his father and his discovery of the causes of his imprisonment?

A) The Byronic hero

B) Rebirth and reinvention

C)Vengeance

D) The redemptive power of love

14. Which of the novel’s thematic concerns is most clearly supported by the symbols of the shroud and Abbé Faria’s red liquid?

A) The Byronic hero

B) Rebirth and reinvention

C) Vengeance

D) The redemptive power of love

15. Which of the novel’s thematic concerns is most clearly supported by the novel’s characterization of Edmond?

A) The Byronic hero

B) Rebirth and reinvention

C) Vengeance

D) The redemptive power of love

Long Answer

Compose a response of 2-3 sentences, incorporating text details to support your response.

1. How do Debray and Villefort demonstrate the corruption of the French government in this era?

2. How do Danglars’s and M. Morrel’s attitudes toward debt illustrate their contrasting moral characters?