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Study Guide: The Count of Monte Cristo, Exercises of English

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Study Guide: The Count of Monte Cristo Name:________________________
by Alexandre Dumas Mrs. Heward
Directions: Answer the questions for each of the reading sections. The questions should go in order, so as to
help you pay better attention to the text. Please make sure the answers on this study guide are your own; you
are responsible for the material in the end!
READING ASSIGNMENT #2 – Chapters 10-15
Questions:
1. With whom does Dantes make contact?
2. Give three examples of how the Abbe uses creativity to survive?
3. What does Dantes discover about the reasons for his imprisonment?
4. How does Dantes change in chapter 10? What does he swear to do?
5. What happens to cancel the plans for escape?
6. What is the significance of the Spada family to the Abbe and Dantes?
7. What does the Abbe find in a book after the Cardinal’s death?
8. What happens to give Dantes an idea for escaping?
9. What is the plan for escape?
10. How are his escape plans nearly ruined at the end of chapter 12?
11. Where does Dantes first end up after escaping?
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Study Guide: The Count of Monte Cristo Name:________________________ by Alexandre Dumas Mrs. Heward

Directions: Answer the questions for each of the reading sections. The questions should go in order, so as to help you pay better attention to the text. Please make sure the answers on this study guide are your own; you are responsible for the material in the end!

READING ASSIGNMENT #2 – Chapters 10- Questions:

  1. With whom does Dantes make contact?
  2. Give three examples of how the Abbe uses creativity to survive?
  3. What does Dantes discover about the reasons for his imprisonment?
  4. How does Dantes change in chapter 10? What does he swear to do?
  5. What happens to cancel the plans for escape?
  6. What is the significance of the Spada family to the Abbe and Dantes?
  7. What does the Abbe find in a book after the Cardinal’s death?
  8. What happens to give Dantes an idea for escaping?
  9. What is the plan for escape?
  10. How are his escape plans nearly ruined at the end of chapter 12?
  11. Where does Dantes first end up after escaping?
  1. What story does Dantes first make up to tell the sailors on the ship that rescues him?
  2. What year is it? How long had Dantes been imprisoned?
  3. Who are the three men he vows vengeance toward?
  4. What virtue had Dantes learned in prison that was useful to him now?
  5. What good fortune comes to Dantes?
  6. How does Dantes manage to remain for a few days on the Isle of Monte Cristo?
  7. What is the first thing Dantes does with his money?
  8. What does he ask Jacopo to do?
  9. How does Dantes manage to transfer all the treasure without being seen?

READING ASSIGNMENT #3 – Chapters 16- Questions:

  1. What has become of Caderousse?
  2. Where does the reader first suspect that the priest is not what he appears to be?
  3. What does the priest say his mission is? What does he say Dantes ordered him to do?
  4. What is Caderousse’s story about Dantes’ father’s death?
  1. Briefly describe the members of the Morrel family and their friends. What kind of people are they?

READING ASSIGNMENT #4 – Chapters 21- Questions:

  1. How does the Count of Monte Cristo make Albert feel indebted to him?
  2. What does the Count ask Albert to do for him in return?
  3. What promise does the Count make to Albert?
  4. What is the significance of the date, September 5th, that Maximilien saved the Baron’s life?
  5. What is the Count’s reaction to meeting Maximilien?
  6. How does the Count shock Maximilien?
  7. In chapter 23, what is the Countess of Morcerf’s reaction to meeting the Count of Monte Cristo?
  8. What is the double meaning to Franz’s claim that the Count was a man who had come back from the next world? (page 149)
  9. Why does Mercedes warn Albert to be careful of the Count?
  10. In chapter 24, what is Bertuccio’s reaction to hearing that the country house in Auteuil is the Count’s?
  11. Who owned the house before the Count bought it?
  12. What story does Bertuccio tell the Count concerning Villefort, Benedetto, and Assunta?
  1. What story does Bertuccio tell the Count concerning Caderousse?
  2. What does the Count say are the two remedies for evil?

READING ASSIGNMENT #5 – Chapters 25- Questions:

  1. Whose horses does the Count buy?
  2. How does the Count shock Baron Danglars?
  3. What is the relationship between Lucien Debray and Madame Danglars?
  4. How does the Count ingratiate himself to Madame Danglars at first?
  5. How does he win the favor of Mde. de Villefort?
  6. When Villefort first visits the Count, what is the tone of the conversation between them?
  7. What is Noirtier’s condition at this time? Where does he live?
  8. What is the relationship between Haydee and the Count?
  9. Who does the Count suggest to Julie Morrel as her father’s benefactor?
  10. What did M. Morrel say on his deathbed?
  11. Whose daughter is Valentine?
  1. Who grabs Andrea as he is getting into his carriage?
  2. What does this man want? How does this man know Andrea?
  3. How does Danglars surprise his wife and Debray? What does he demand of her?
  4. What had happened to Mde. Danglars’ first husband?
  5. Why does Danglars go see the Count?
  6. What does Danglars tell the Count concerning Eugenie’s possible engagement to Albert?

READING ASSIGNMENT #7 – Chapters 42- Questions:

  1. Chapter 42 starts with a funeral. Who has died?
  2. Why does Villefort ask Franz to come home with him?
  3. How and what did Noitier reveal to Franz?
  4. What news does Danglars break to Count de Morcerf?
  5. Who was the poison, which killed Barrios, intended for?
  6. Why did it not kill the intended receiver, even though he drank some of the lemonade?
  7. Who appears to be guilty of poisoning after Barrios’ death?
  1. What idea did Andrea plant in Caderousse’s head?
  2. Who was waiting to stab Caderousse after his robbery?
  3. Under what disguise did the Count appear to Caderousse?
  4. How did Caderousse and Benedetto escape from prison?
  5. Who does Andrea Cavalcanti plan to marry?
  6. What news hits Paris concerning the Count de Morcerf?
  7. Where was Albert when the news broke?

READING ASSIGNMENT #8 – Chapters 48- Questions:

  1. Who was the chief witness to testify against the Count de Morcerf?
  2. What had Fernand done to Haydee and her mother?
  3. What does Albert learn from Danglars when he goes to challenge Danglars to a duel?
  4. How do Albert’s feelings toward the Count change?
  5. Who came to the Count begging for mercy regarding Albert in the duel?
  6. What brief change of heart does the Count have at the end of Chapter 51?
  1. How did the Count save Valentine’s life?
  2. Who was responsible for all the deaths in the Villefort house? Why?

READING ASSIGNMENT #10 – Chapters 60- Questions:

  1. What surprise does Mde. Villefort have after Valentine’s death? (pg. 357)
  2. Whom do Villefort and the doctor ask to pray for and watch over Valentine?
  3. How does Villefort discover his daughter’s murderer?
  4. What caused Danglars to leave Paris?
  5. Why did the Count reveal himself to Maximilien?
  6. What did Maximilien agree to do?
  7. What does Mde. Danglars discover about her husband and her relationship with Lucien Debray?
  8. What command did Villefort give Mde. Villefort?

READING ASSIGNMENT # 11 – Chapters 66 to the end of the novel Questions:

  1. What was revealed to Villefort and the public in court?
  2. What did Villefort think of on his way home from court?
  1. What does Villefort find when he returns home?
  2. How does Edmond Dantes feel after completing his revenge against Villefort?
  3. How is Villefort last seen? What is his condition?
  4. Who does the Count of Monte Cristo see in Marseilles?
  5. After seeing this person, what change takes place in Edmond Dantes?
  6. Where does the Count go to renew his oath of vengeance?
  7. How does the Count get revenge on Danglars?
  8. How does the Count save Maximilien from dying?
  9. With whom does the Count begin a new life?
  10. What is the “sum of all human wisdom”?