Places (Where is... or Where are...?)
People (Who is... Who are...?)
Things (What is... or What are...?)
Motives (Why does or
Why do...?)
Minor Characters
(Who is ...Who are...?
100

in the river.

Where is Javert?

100

the chaperone.

Who is Jean Valjean?

100

left at the end of a bridge.

What is Javert's hat?

100

He sought himself and found himself no longer.

Why does Javert commit suicide?

100
the Gillenormand's butler.

Who is Basque?

200

on the mantle.

Where are the candlesticks?

200

Euphrasie Fauchelevent

What does JV tell everyone Cosette's real name is? (This is not true. He's just trying to give her a respectable past.)

200

admiration for a convict.

What does Javert feel that causes him to commit suicide?

200

to avoid signing anything that might make Cosette and Marius's marriage less than legal.

Why does Jean Valjean pretend to have hurt his thumb?

200

dies in prison.

Who is Madame Thenardier?
300

buried in the woods outside Montfermeil.

Where did JV keep the money and candlesticks all of these years?

300

has a piece of Marius's bloody coat.

Who is Thenardier?

300

the moldy, green book (a.k.a. "a very good book.")

What is the packet of Jean Valjean's money?
300

Because "Cosette had Marius. Marius possessed Cosette. They had everything, even riches. And it was his work."..."What was he to do with it?"

Why does Jean Valjean's heart break on Cosette's wedding night?

300

is the only surviving sibling. (Both her sister and brother have died.)

Azelma Thenardier

400

at the sewer gate.

Where is Thenardier?

400

is called "sublime" (admirable; awe-inspiring) by both Marius and Javert.

Who is Jean Valjean?

400
taken from the inseparable and laid out on the bed.

Where are Cosette's black mourning clothes from when JV first picked her up from the Thenardiers?

400

"He must have thrown himself into the midst of the combat, have snatched me out of it, have opened the sewer, have drawn me into it, have borne me through it!"

Why is Marius determined to find the man who saved him from the barricades?

400

"another Fauchelevent"

Who does JV tell everyone that Cosette's real father is?

500

crying all night long on the bed.

Where was Jean Valjean?

500

Thenardier and the "archangel"

Who are the two men that Marius is trying to find?

500

"Father"

What word broke the ice between Marius and his grandfather?
500

He knows Javert is dead. He saw it in the papers.

Why does Jean Valjean decide to fetch the money and the candlesticks?

500

the person who describes for Marius how Marius (an insurgent) was carried out of the sewer by an unknown man who was then arrested by a police officer and how the police officer and the unknown man delivered Marius to M. Gillenormand's.

the driver of the carriage that brought Marius home.