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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 announce about the Prussian officer as the passengers are about to sit down to dinner the first day in Totes?
(a) He wants to know if Mademoiselle Elisabeth Rousset has changed her mind.
(b) He wants to know if Madame Follenvie has changed her mind.
(c) He wants to know if Madame Loiseau has changed her mind.
(d) He wants to know if the two nuns have changed their minds.

2. 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) Cornudet.
(b) Monsieur Carre-Lamadon.
(c) Madame Loiseau.
(d) Comtess de Breville.

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 because of Boule de Suif.
(c) They were being held hostage.
(d) They were to be held for ransom.

4. In the beginning of "Boule de Suif," what are the "Avengers of Defeat," "Citizens of the Tomb," and "Brethren in Death."
(a) British dragoon.
(b) Legions of irregulars.
(c) Reformist campaigners.
(d) Enlisted men.

5. Retiring after supper on their first night in Totes, Loiseau puts his eye to the bedroom keyhole in order to discover the ________of the corridor.
(a) Apparitions.
(b) Inhabitants.
(c) Mysteries.
(d) Truths.

Short Answer Questions

1. After night falls, what does Madame de Breville offer Boule de Suif when the cold makes her shiver in the coach?

2. In the coach from Totes, Cornudet _____like a man who had just thought of a good _______.

3. When the passengers return from their walk on the second day in Totes, why do the exchange sharp words over the "merest trifles"?

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

5. What is the song Cornudet begins to hum in the coach at the end of "Boule de Suif" about?

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