les miserables

Question 1

After nineteen years as a prisoner on the chain gang,

Answer 1

Jean Valjean is released on parole with his yellow ticket-of-leave, which he must always carry with him,

Question 2

What does the yellow ticket-of-leave represent?

Answer 2

Branding him as a thief

Question 3

What did Valjean steal that the Bishop forgave him for?

Answer 3

Silver

Question 4

What was Valjean’s excuse for stealing the silver?

Answer 4

It was a gift from the bishop.

Question 5

What moment caused Valjean to start a new life?

Answer 5

When the Bishop of Digne gives him two silver candlesticks, realising the Bishop gave him a chance to redeem himself

Question 6

now a factory owner and the mayor of a small town

Answer 6

Monsieur Madeleine

Question 7

Eight years pass since Valjean’s interaction with the Bishop, Valjean is now called

Answer 7

Monsieur Madeleine

Question 8

has a secret illegitimate child who lives with innkeepers in another town.

Answer 8

Fantine

Question 9

Who and why did Fantine get fired?

Answer 9

The foreman, whose advances she has rejected, fires her.

Question 10

How does Fantine earn money to pay for her sick daughter’s medicine

Answer 10

She sells her locket, then her hair, and eventually becomes a prostitute.

Question 11

Who was going to send Fantine to prison because allegedly, she attacked a customer.

Answer 11

Inspector Javert

Question 12

Who stops Fantine from going to jail and instead gets sent to a hospital?

Answer 12

Valjean (The Mayor)

Question 13

elderly man is pinned under a runaway cart

Answer 13

Valjean saves him by lifting the cart, a feat that requires extraordinary strength

Question 14

parole-breaker whom he has been hunting for years.

Answer 14

Prisoner 24601 (Valjean)

Question 15

a man has just been arrested who is to be tried as 24601

Answer 15

Valjean refuses to let an innocent man go to prison for him, and confesses to the court that he is Prisoner 24601.

Question 16

What happens to Fantine?

Answer 16

She dies.

Question 17

Fantine’s daughter

Answer 17

Cosette

Question 18

who run an inn in Montfermeil and treat Cosette miserably

Answer 18

Thénardiers

Question 19

spoiled daugther of tne Thénardiers

Answer 19

Eponine

Question 20

Nine years later after Valjean arrives to find a frightened Cosette in the dark forest carrying water from the well. He pays the Thénardiers to let him take Cosette away.

Answer 20

there is general unrest in Paris

Question 21

a street urchin, mingles with beggars and prostitutes

Answer 21

Gavroche

Question 22

Eponine love interest

Answer 22

Marius

Question 23

Marius love interest

Answer 23

Cosette

Question 24

First victim of the students’ insurrection

Answer 24

Eponine

Question 25

Marius gets shot

Answer 25

Valjean takes the unconscious Marius down a manhole into the sewer to protect him.

Question 26

What caused Javert to be desperately conflicted?

Answer 26

The mercy Valjean showed him

Question 27

What haolens to Valjean in the end?

Answer 27

He dies and joins everyone else who have passed

Question 28

What happened to Marius and Cisette

Answer 28

The lovers get married

Question 29

How did Cosette and Marius find out about Valjean’s real identity

Answer 29

The Thénardiers blackmailing