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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the nuns in "Boule de Suif" spend their time in the coach?
(a) Reading.
(b) Listening.
(c) Praying.
(d) Sleeping.

2. After night falls, what does Madame de Breville offer Boule de Suif when the cold makes her shiver in the coach?
(a) Her blanket.
(b) Her foot-warmer.
(c) Her boots.
(d) Her fur collar.

3. What country are the passengers in "Boule de Suif" traveling through on a coach?
(a) France.
(b) Spain.
(c) Russia.
(d) Germany.

4. "Boule de Suif" is set during which war?
(a) Franco-Prussian.
(b) WWI.
(c) Spanish.
(d) Napoleonic.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Boule de Suif much sought after in the story?

2. Why do the coach passengers resemble "obese priests in their cassocks" when they meet for their seats?

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

4. In the beginning of "Boule de Suif," what kind of soldiers are NOT wandering through the town?

5. In the beginning of "Boule de Suif," the soldiers wore long, dirty________ and tattered _________.

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