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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. According to the narrator, who feels affection for the "pomp and circumstance of despotic government"?
2. Why does the four-horse coach decide to leave on Tuesday morning before daybreak?
3. What port city do the merchants in Rouen have business in and have to reach, despite being occupied by the Germans?
4. In the morning of their first day in Totes, what do the male passengers see the Prussian soldiers doing in the town square while looking for the coach driver?
5. How does Boule de Suif respond to the matrons loud whispers of "hussy" and "public scandal" about her?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the Prussian officer's manner and dress when he meets with the male passengers in his room and how does it contrast with the male passengers?
2. Why does Loiseau take off his watch chain in the kitchen as the coach passengers discuss the Prussian officer's motives, and how is it significant?
3. What are the citizens of Rouen anticipating in the beginning of "Boule de Suif" and how does the atmosphere in the city influence its inhabitants?
4. What analogy does Maupassant make in order to describe how the passengers discuss their strategies in approaching Boule de Suif about sleeping with the Prussian officer, and why is it significant?
5. What is the passengers' attitude toward Boule de Suif on their second day of detention in Totes?
6. How does the Prussian officer respond to the male passenger's inquiries about his refusal to let them depart and how is it significant?
7. When the passengers congregate in the kitchen to discuss the Prussian's motives for detaining them the first day, what are their assumptions and how are they significant?
8. Describe the setting in the opening scene of "Boule de Suif" and its significance.
9. In contrast to the other passengers, what does Boule de Suif realize in the coach departing Totes about the comprising situation they put her in?
10. How does Boule de Suif reject Cornudet's advances and what does it signify?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss dramatic irony in "Boule de Suif."
1) Define dramatic irony.
2) What scenes employ dramatic irony?
Essay Topic 2
Language is a powerful tool in the story. Choose 2 scenes and discuss how language is used to manipulate, convince, lecture, flatter, and/or demean Boule de Suif.
Essay Topic 3
Who is the main antagonist in "Boule de Suif"? Is it the Prussian officer or the other passengers?
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