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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Boule de Suif react to the passengers' response to her when she arrives at the coach for their departure?
(a) She is relieved from anxiety.
(b) She is grateful and happy.
(c) She is stupefied with astonishment.
(d) She is humbled by their generosity.

2. When Boule de Suif arrives at the coach for their departure from Totes, how does Madame Carre-Lamadon respond to her greeting?
(a) With an abrupt embrace and look of restrained gallantry.
(b) With a insolent nod and look of outraged virtue.
(c) With a warm smile and look of excessive gratitude.
(d) With a cool handshake and look of graceful humility.

3. On the second day in Totes, the coach passengers rose early, with a _______hope of being allowed to start, a _______desire than ever to do so.
(a) Vague; smaller.
(b) Strange; greater.
(c) Vague; greater.
(d) Immense; smaller.

4. On their walk the second day in Totes, what do the ladies discuss as the men talk of war?
(a) Children.
(b) Dress.
(c) Food.
(d) Literature.

5. During their trip from Totes, why does Boule de Suif want to open her lips "to shriek the truth at them, to overwhelm them with a volley of insults"?
(a) Because they were eating and ignoring her.
(b) Because they were throwing food and shouting at her.
(c) Because they were lying and stealing from her.
(d) Because they were laughing and pointing at her.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Monsieur Carre-Lamadon, if the French made a counter attack by way of Dieppe, their encounter with the enemy would inevitably take place where?

2. Who appears suddenly at the end of the street on their walk during the second day in Totes?

3. As they talked on their walk the second day in Totes, what is the prevailing feeling among the women?

4. Where does Boule de Suif sit in the coach on their departure from Totes?

5. Who "remained apart from the rest, taking no share in the plot" of persuading Boule de Suif to sleep with the Prussian.

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