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"Le couteau, dont Marc a cassé le manche, est bleu." What/who is blue?

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"Le couteau, que Marc a cassé le manche, est bleu." What/who is blue?

What would be the difference between dont and que here? 

The guidance says 'any object is placed between the de and the infinitive' so I'm puzzled as to why the example given doesn't end 'avant d'une solution trouver' instead of  the given 'avant de trouver une solution'. Merci!

This exercise is far far too long - I get distracted and bored and then I start over another day and the same thing happens.  It is now my third week of it and I have not passed Point 1.

It needs to be broken up into different lessons!  It makes me very annoyed and it is off putting to continue...

I just want to clarify can the following be either, 'what is this' or 'what is that?' If not, how do you change the sentence to be one or the other?

Or is it it for example:

qu'est-ce que c'est : What is that?

qu'est-ce que c'est que cela: What is this?

I am confused.  I know Un is used with masculine nouns and Une is with feminine nouns.  But when I looked at the examples of these two:

Un exemple

Une aventure

They both use the English An, but in French, both nouns are feminine, ending in E.  So, why use the masculine form of Un with Exemple???

Does anyone know what that sentence means? In English, please.

It's the first sentence in this lesson.

Thanks.