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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On their final morning in Totes, what are the passengers doing while they wait for Boule de Suif?
(a) Waiting by the fireplace with blankets for the trip.
(b) Dining at the village cafe with the coach driver.
(c) Cleaning out their rooms for the next guests.
(d) Putting up provisions for the remainder of the journey.

2. What is the subject Monsieur Carre-Lamadon is discussing with his companion in the coach from Totes?
(a) War.
(b) Politics.
(c) Business.
(d) Religion.

3. Who declares after they take their seats in the coach for their departure from Totes, "What a mercy I am not sitting beside that creature!"
(a) Comtess de Breville.
(b) Cornudet.
(c) Madame Loiseau.
(d) Monsieur Carre-Lamadon.

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?
(a) Burying the dead and attending to the wounded.
(b) Helping the women with household chores.
(c) Practicing drills for the next battle.
(d) Stockpiling weapons and provisions.

5. When the male passengers meet with the Prussian officer after luncheon the first day in Totes, what does he do?
(a) He rose, but neither greeted them, or even glanced in their direction.
(b) He rose, greeted them, and glanced in their direction.
(c) He neither rose nor greeted them, but glanced in their direction.
(d) He neither rose, greeted them, nor even glanced in their direction.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the coach lights the lantern, what hovers over the sweating flanks of the horses and roadside?

2. On their walk the second day in Totes, what do the ladies discuss as the men talk of war?

3. As they discuss the Prussian officer on the third day in Totes, why does Madame Carre-Lamadon's eyes glisten and her face grow pale?

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

5. Who declares at dinner the first day in Totes that the Prussians behaved liked "ancient barbarians"?

(see the answer key)

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