Character is Everything
What's in a Name?
Do It for the Plot
Repeating History
It's All Relative
100

This character spent 19 years in prison.

Who is Jean Valjean? 

100

The number 24601 replaces this character's name. 

Who is Jean Valjean? 

100

This is how Jean Valjean found out about Cosette's attachment to Marius. 

What is seeing a copy of a letter she wrote telling Marius about their plans to leave for London? 

100

This was the radical revolutionary group Marius joins. 

What is the Friends of the A B C? 

100

Javert sees justice as this, while Jean Valjean sees justice as conscience.

What is absolute/black and white/duty? 

200

This character sold her hair and teeth to save her child. 

Who is Fantine? 

200

This alias was so good and popular that the town made him mayor.

Who is Father/Monsieur Madeliene? 

200

This important person made Colonel Pontmercy a baron. 

Who is Napoleon Bonaparte? 

200

This was the estate that included high-ranking clergy. 

What is the First Estate? 

200

Marius loves Cosette despite this.

What is her reputation/family name?

300

This character saved Colonel Pontmercy at Waterloo. 

Who is Thenardier? 

300

These were the nicknames Marius gave Jean Valjean and Cosette. 

Who is M. Leblanc and Mlle. Lanoir? 

300

At mass at Saint-Sulpice, this character tells Marius that his father secretly watched him from behind a pillar.

Who is M. Mabeuf? 

300

This was the name of rich people in the Third Estate.

What is the bourgeoisie? 

300

Jean Valjean does this in order to break out of the cycle of poverty and incarceration. 

What is breaks the rules/commits identity fraud/steals?

400

This character stood up to her father and his "goons."

Who is Eponine? 

400

This alias was so popular that the community called for his release from prison. 

Who is the "convict in the green hat"? 

400

This is the reason why Jean Valjean rescues Cosette.

What is he feels responsible for Fantine's suffering and promises to find her?

400

These are the characteristics of French Romanticism (at least two).

What is 1) a focus on imagination and emotion, 2) a focus on socio-economic situations (especially poverty), 3) a love for nature, or 4) value in personal expression?

400

The Friends of the A B C consider themselves this despite rebelling against the French government.

What is patriotic? 

500

This character symbolizes the idealism of the revolution. 

Who is Gavroche? 

500

This was written on Jean Valjean's tombstone.

What is nothing?

500

The reasons why Fantine was forced into prostitution (at least three).

What is 1) Felix abandoned her while pregnant, 2) she was kicked out of the factory for having a child, 3) the Thenardiers were extorting money from her, 4) the price for mending went down, or 5) she sold everything of value?

500

This was the name of the unsuccessful revolution depicted in the novel.

What is the June Rebellion? 

500

Javert is saved from being executed and uses his freedom to do this.

What is suicide? 

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