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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does the person who appears suddenly at the end of the street on the second day in Totes walk with in a peculiar motion with knees apart?
(a) So as not to soil their overcoat.
(b) So as not to appear bored.
(c) So as not to soil their boots.
(d) So as not to appear defeated.

3. What object does Loiseau take out in the coach on their departure from Totes, that is "thick with the grease of five years' contact with half-wiped tables"?
(a) A bound Bible.
(b) A flash of liquor.
(c) A pack of cards.
(d) A box of cigars.

4. According to the coach driver, who gave him command the morning of the first day in Totes?
(a) Monsieur Follenvie.
(b) Cornudet.
(c) Madame Follenvie.
(d) Loiseau.

5. Where did Loiseau get the object he takes out in the coach on their departure from Totes?
(a) The inn in Rouen.
(b) The inn in Totes.
(c) The inn in Marseille.
(d) The inn in Paris.

Short Answer 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?

2. Why does Cornudet follow Boule de Suif to her room their first night in Totes?

3. How does Boule de Suif respond to the matrons loud whispers of "hussy" and "public scandal" about her?

4. What speed is the coach moving along its journey to Totes in "Boule de Suif"?

5. The third morning in Totes, the passengers awoke with _____faces and _______tempers.

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