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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3.

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. What does the rumor about the Prussians concern in the beginning of "Boule de Suif"?
(a) That they were about to leave Rouen.
(b) That they were about to enter Rouen.
(c) That they were about to enter Paris.
(d) That they were about to leave Paris.

3. 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.

4. What is the word that no one is shocked to hear about the Prussian officer's request?
(a) Murder.
(b) Hostage.
(c) Ransom.
(d) Mistress.

5. In "Boule de Suif," who is a king in the cotton trade with a much younger wife?
(a) Cornudet.
(b) Monsieur de Suif.
(c) Comte Hubert de Breville.
(d) Monsieur Carre-Lamadon.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the coach floor covered with as the passengers take their seats?

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

4. Where is the Prussian officer staying in the inn in Totes?

5. According to the narrator, as they discuss persuading Boule de Suif on the third day in Totes, every woman in the world is furnished with what?

(see the answer key)

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