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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Monsieur Follenvie tell his wife to do when she comes to fetch him to go to bed during the card game?
(a) Put my egg-nogg by the fire.
(b) Have a glass of milk in the drawing room.
(c) Wait up with my sherry.
(d) Fetch my slippers before retiring.

2. As they dined after the first indignant outburst the first day in Totes, the coach passengers spoke _______and thought _______.
(a) Little; much.
(b) Little; some.
(c) Some; much.
(d) Much; little.

3. What do the nuns partake in at lunch in the coach from Totes?
(a) Bread.
(b) Pie.
(c) Sausage.
(d) Fruit.

4. Who is the "creature" the person is referring to in the coach from Totes?
(a) Comtess de Breville.
(b) Loiseau.
(c) Boule de Suif.
(d) The Old Nun.

5. Who breaks the "painful silence" in the coach as they began on their departure from Totes?
(a) Comtess de Breville.
(b) Madame Carre-Lamadon.
(c) The Old Nun.
(d) Monsieur Carre-Lamadon.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Boule de Suif," who has the best seats in the coach?

2. In "Boule de Suif," who is the "terror of all respectable people"?

3. Who breaks their jug on the table in indignation at the Prussian officer's request regarding Boule de Suif?

4. As Cornudet settles beside the kitchen fireplace, what does he do as he "sucked the foam from his mustache" the first day in Totes?

5. On the third day the passengers are in Totes, why are the ladies pleasant to Boule de Suif until lunch time?

(see the answer key)

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