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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the coach floor covered with as the passengers take their seats?
(a) Fur.
(b) Straw.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Wool.

2. What does Cornudet have that he offers to his neighbors in the coach on the way to Totes?
(a) A crust of bread.
(b) A carafe of coffee.
(c) A bottle of rum.
(d) A knuckle of ham.

3. In the beginning of the story, what do the conquerors exact from the inhabitants of Rouen?
(a) Transportation.
(b) Accolades.
(c) Money.
(d) Clothes.

4. Who does Loiseau fancy he sees receive a noiseless blow in the dark in the coach?
(a) Cornudet.
(b) Comte de Breville.
(c) Monsieur Carre-Lamadon.
(d) The coachman.

5. In "Boule de Suif," who is the "terror of all respectable people"?
(a) Boule de Suif.
(b) Cornudet.
(c) Comte de Breville.
(d) Monsieur Carre-Lamadon.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the narrator, who feels affection for the "pomp and circumstance of despotic government"?

2. How many passengers are traveling on a coach in "Boule de Suif"?

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

4. The Prussian officer who often dined at the same table with the family, expressed sympathy with __________.

5. What do boat-men and fishermen often haul to the surface in "Boule de Suif"?

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