Fantomina Quizzes

Fantomina Quiz 1

1 Where does the first scene of the novel take place?

At the ballet

At an expensive restaurant

At the opera

At a playhouse
2 What detail is noted about where Fantomina is sitting at the novel's opening?

In a box, or private compartment

In a shadowy corner where her face is not fully visible

In the front row

In front of an open window
3 What attributes are first noted about Fantomina by the narrator?

Her shy manner and deep piety

Her long dark hair and brilliant blue eyes

Her extravagant dress and many jewels

Her birth, beauty, wit, and spirit
4 Who catches Fantomina's eye during the novel's first scene?

A woman whose face is entirely veiled and hidden from view

A much older woman who still manages to be very attractive and charismatic

A woman who is receiving the attention of many men

A woman trying to show off her attractive young daughter
5 What is easily determined about the woman who Fantomina becomes interested in?

That she has royal blood

That she is a nun

That she is a prostitute

That she has not received any education
6 What reason is given in the opening scene for why Fantomina is more innocent than many of the other women around her?

She has grown up in the country and not spent much time in an urban environment

She was educated by nuns in a convent

She has very strict and overprotective parents

She tends to daydream, be lost in her own world, and not notice what is happening around her
7 After observing the woman who caught her attention, what idea occurs to Fantomina?

To dress up like a prostitute

To marry the wealthiest man she can find

To take lovers and become more sexually experienced

To become a nun
8 What is, according to the narrator, her motivation for this idea?

Innocent curiosity

Greed

A deep sense of shame and repentance

The first stirrings of sexual desire
9 What are the circumstances that might have created an obstable to her plan, but do not exist in Fantomina's case?

Someone living in the city who is responsible for her behaviour and to whom she is accountable

A more serious disposition and reflective temperament

A strict husband

A trusted friend and confidante who could explain the error of her idea
10 When does Fantomina reappear after putting her plan into action?

Two weeks later

Six months later

The next night

One week later
11 How has she ensured that she will not be recognized while she implements her plan?

She loses a great deal of weight

She covers her face with fabric

She adopts a fake accent

She dyes her hair
12 When Fantomina returns in disguise, what is different about the way she is treated?

She receives a lot of attention and compliments from men

She is mocked and laughed at

She is taken much more seriously, and people ask her opinions about politics and current events

She is now considered lower-class and treated rudely by wealthier women
13 Who is the man who Fantomina finds herself drawn to on the first night she appears in disguise?

Beauregard

Beauaimant

Beauplaisir

Beaucoeur
14 Which of the following best characterizes her previous interactions with this man?

They have slept together several times

She has met him before and felt attracted to him

She has watched him seduce and abandon her closest friend

She has never seen him before
15 Whom does he think that Fantomina resembles?

His old childhood sweetheart

Her true self

The princess

A very well-known prostitute
16 What does he notice as they begin to converse?

That she keeps touching him flirtatiously

That she is better educated and more refined than he would have expected

That she has a strong foreign accent

That she seems very shy and uncomfortable
17 What problem arises for Fantomina after she has spent some time talking with Beauplaisir?

He starts to lose interest

He proposes marriage to her

He expects her to go somewhere and have sex with him

He insists on buying her an expensive gift even though she knows he is in debt
18 What possibility does Fantomina consider in order to resolve this problem?

Secretly sneaking away so that he won't know she has left.

Telling him she has taken a vow of celibacy

Telling him she is already married

Telling him who she truly is
19 What does she actually do in order to resolve the problem?

She introduces him to another woman as a distraction

She hires a man to pretend to be her jealous husband

She tells him that she has already has an engagement with another client that night

She gives him a fake address to meet her at
20 What does Beauplaisir ask of her?

That she return to the same place the following night to meet with him

That she take a ring from him as a promise of his fidelity

That she stop seeing all other men

That she run away with him that very night
21 Where does Beauplaisir go after the two part ways?

To hire a detective to follow Fantomina and determine her true identity

To find a prostitute

To meet his friends and talk about the woman he has just met

To the tavern
22 How does Fantomina make her way home?

By boat

On horseback

On foot

In a carried chair
23 What emotions does Fantomina experience as she thinks about the events of the night?

A strong desire to see Beauplaisir again

Regret that she has started her relationship with Beauplaisir under the shadow of a lie

Anger and frustration that men were more attracted to her when she was in disguise

Shame and embarassment for having been so bold and assertive
24 What action does Fantomina take the next day?

She buys herself a revealing new dress

She writes a long letter to her parents

She rents rooms in a house close to the theatre

She withdraws a large sum of money from her bank
25 What does she hope this action will achieve?

It will make Beauplaisir have more respect for her

It will help her to attract additional suitors

It will give her a place to bring Beaplaisir where she will have more agency and control

It will create clues if she disappears

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