Quiz: Could you fit in as a Musketeer?

The story is set in the 1620s during the reign of French King Louis XIII.

Dumas wrote the novel "The Three Musketeers" in the 1840s.

D'Artagnan arrives in Paris from Gascony with the dream of becoming a musketeer.

All for one and one for all was the musketeers' motto.

Richelieu was a powerful cardinal and minister to the king, not a musketeer.

The original musket, known locally as a moschetto, was invented in Spain.

A piece of burning cord ignited the gunpowder charge.

The sword or rapier was the traditional dueling weapon at the time.

The pikemen's 18-foot (5-meter) spears warded off attacks by cavalry, protecting the men with firearms.

A trained bowman could fire six arrows a minute. An musketeer could only shoot once every two or three minutes.

Chinese alchemists stumbled on the formula for gunpowder around the year A.D. 1000.

Saltpeter, or potassium nitrate, is the key ingredient in gunpowder.

The flintlock ignited the gunpowder with a spark, so the shooter didn't need to apply a burning cord.

A Huguenot was a French Protestant.

The religious wars of 17th century France were between the Catholic king and the country's Protestants.

The French royal forces were besieging the Huguenot stronghold of La Rochelle.

No musketeer would be caught dead without his elaborate feathered hat.

Courage and loyalty, maybe. But as for chastity, these soldiers were great womanizers and famous lovers.

The modern rifle uses the explosion of gunpowder to hurl a bullet out the barrel, just as old-school muskets did.

The musketeers were disbanded completely in 1816.