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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the metaphor Maupassant uses to describe the course of action the passengers take in persuading Boule de Suif to sleep with the Prussian?
(a) War.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Labor.
(d) Sport.

2. At three o'clock, what does Boule de Suif remove from an enormous dish in the story?
(a) A half of turkey.
(b) One duck.
(c) Two chickens.
(d) Two hams.

3. When the coach lights the lantern, what hovers over the sweating flanks of the horses and roadside?
(a) A dense fog.
(b) A cloud of vapor.
(c) A light mist.
(d) A shadow of moonlight.

4. In "Boule de Suif," who is the "terror of all respectable people"?
(a) Cornudet.
(b) Monsieur Carre-Lamadon.
(c) Comte de Breville.
(d) Boule de Suif.

5. Who states after dinner the third day in Totes, "when women run after uniforms it's all the same to them whether the men who wear them are French or Prussian. It's perfectly sickening!"
(a) Madame Carre-Lamadon.
(b) Madame Loiseau.
(c) Monsieur Follenvie.
(d) Cornudet.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who sends the Prussian officer a card on which Monsieur Carre-Lamadon inscribes his name and titles?

2. On their walk the second day in Totes, who states that they could not "exact so painful a sacrifice from any woman, and that the first move must come from herself"?

3. As the passenger drew together to make their course of action to persuade Boule de Suif on the third day in Totes, the ladies were adept at _______phrases and _______subtleties of expression to describe the most ________things.

4. What is the coach floor covered with as the passengers take their seats?

5. What does Monsieur Follenvie tell his wife to do when she comes to fetch him to go to bed during the card game?

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