The Scarlet Pimpernel Quizzes

The Scarlet Pimpernel Quiz 1

By Soman Chainani · Edited by W.C. Miller · Last reviewed June 05, 2007

1 What is the port city in France to which the League of the Pimpernel brings its fugitives?

Avignon

Calais

Paris

Venice
2 Where is the Fisherman's Edge located?

Edinborough

Dover

Cardiff

London
3 Who is captured in Chauvelin's first raid?

Percy Blakeney

Lord Antony

Sir Andrew

Armand St. Just
4 Who is Marguerite St. Just in England?

Suzanne de Tournay

Mademoiselle Beauregard

Lady Blakeney

Comtesse de Tournay
5 What is the name of the inn in Chalais where Percy and Chauvelin meet?

Chat Gris

Fisherman's Edge

West Barricade

Dover Inn
6 Who did Marguerite St. Just condemn to the tribunal council?

Armand de St. Just

Chauvelin

Sir Andrew

Marquis de St. Cyr
7 The ball after the opera is held by...

Lord Grenville

Chauvelin

Lord Antony Dewhurst

The Scarlet Pimpernel
8 The Scarlet Pimpernel is named after a...

boat

war

flower

river
9 When Baroness Orczy did not successfully publish The Scarlet Pimpernel as a book, she published it instead as a...

opera

radio show

film

play
10 What is the name of Percy's ship?

Blakeney Manor

Day Dream

Freedom Runner

Pimpernel
11 What does Chauvelin find that makes him sure he can entrap Marguerite St. Just?

a letter from Percy

a letter from Armand St. Just

a presidential decree ordering the arrest of Marguerite

Percy's Scarlet Pimpernel ring
12 Which is one word not used to describe Percy at some point during the novel?

dull

boorish

loquacious

fashionable
13 Who does Percy allegedly go to for help to escape from Chalais?

Reuben

Reuben's old Jewish friend

Degas

Brogard
14 Who is not rescued from France in the novel's opening?

The Tournay young son

The Tournay young daughter

Comte de Tournay

Countess de Tournay
15 What does citoyen mean in English?

flower

citizen

clergy

warrior
16 The Comtesse de Tournay forbids her daughter from speaking to...

Armand de St. Just

Percy Blakeney

Lord Antony Dewhurst

Lady Blakeney
17 What does Lady Blakeney put on her body before she returns to England?

hat

shoes

jacket

hair clip
18 Lady Blakeney is surprised that Percy's study is...

neat and orderly

empty and silent

messy and dirty

a secret chamber
19 Percy secretly hates Lady Blakeney because she denounced...

Lord Antony

Chauvelin

Sir Andrew Ffoulkes

The St. Cyr family
20 When Chauvelin goes to the supper room at 1 o'clock looking for The Scarlet Pimpernel, he instead finds...

Sir Andrew

Lady Blakeney

Percy

Degas
21 People are surprised that Percy Blakeney married Lady Blakeney because...

they think he's too smart for her

they think she's too good for him

they think she's too poor

they think she's too rich for him
22 What do the masses use to execute nobility?

lethal injection

guillotine

drowning

hanging
23 What is the nickname for the instrument of death penalty in revolutionary France?

Axel de la Avignon

St. Therese de Raquin

Madame de la Guillotine

Jean Pierre de Gallows
24 What is the name of the Seargent who stands guard over the West Barricades?

Bibot

Degas

Chauvelin

Brogard
25 Percy gets through the West Barricade dressed as...

a young peasant

a fox

a Russian count

an old hag

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