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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the morning of the first day in Totes, what two people does Cornudet listen to forecast the future of France, one advocating the Orleans dynasty, the other an unknown savior?
(a) Loiseau and Comte de Breville.
(b) Comtess de Breville and Loiseau.
(c) Comte de Breville and Monsieur Carre-Lamadon.
(d) Boule de Suif and Monsieur Carre-Lamadon.

2. What is the coach driver doing when the male passengers find him the morning of the first day in Totes?
(a) Confessing to the priest.
(b) Harnessing the horses.
(c) Fraternizing with the officer's orderly.
(d) Arguing with the innkeeper's wife.

3. What is NOT one of the reasons the coach passengers discuss in the kitchen after the meeting with the Prussian officer the first day in Totes?
(a) They were to be extradited as prisoners of war.
(b) They were being held hostage.
(c) They were being held because of Boule de Suif.
(d) They were to be held for ransom.

4. Who declares at dinner the first day in Totes that the Prussians behaved liked "ancient barbarians"?
(a) Boule de Suif.
(b) Madame Carre-Lamadon.
(c) Loiseau.
(d) Comte de Breville.

5. What passengers are the last to alight from the coach when they arrive in Totes?
(a) The two nuns.
(b) Monsieur and Madame Carre-Lamadon.
(c) Comtesse and Comte de Breville.
(d) Boule de Suif and Cornudet.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Boule de Suif's real name?

2. What does Cornudet have that he offers to his neighbors in the coach on the way to Totes?

3. In "Boule de Suif," who is a king in the cotton trade with a much younger wife?

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

5. What does Monsieur Follenvie announce about the Prussian officer as the passengers are about to sit down to dinner the first day in Totes?

(see the answer key)

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