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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do the coach passengers resemble "obese priests in their cassocks" when they meet for their seats?
(a) Because they are very fat.
(b) Because they are devout Christians.
(c) Because they are disguised as priests.
(d) Because they are swathed in heavy winter wraps.

2. In the morning of their first day in Totes, where do the male passengers find the coach driver?
(a) In the hotel lobby.
(b) In the stable.
(c) In the church.
(d) In the village cafe.

3. According to the passengers during lunch the second day of Totes, what step would have been of "little consequence" to Boule de Suif?
(a) If she had sought out the innkeeper.
(b) If she had not sought out the Prussian.
(c) If she had sought out the Prussian.
(d) If she had not sought out the innkeeper.

4. The Prussian officer who often dined at the same table with the family, expressed sympathy with __________.
(a) United States.
(b) Germany.
(c) Russia.
(d) France.

5. Who tells Monsieur Follenvie to "Kindly tell the scoundrel, that carrion of a Prussian, that I will never consent"?
(a) Madame Carre-Lamadon.
(b) Madame Loiseau.
(c) Boule de Suif.
(d) The Old Nun.

Short Answer Questions

1. The third morning in Totes, the passengers awoke with _____faces and _______tempers.

2. Who sends the Prussian officer a card on which Monsieur Carre-Lamadon inscribes his name and titles?

3. How does Boule de Suif respond to the matrons loud whispers of "hussy" and "public scandal" about her?

4. On their walk the second day in Totes, what looks "so mournful and depressing" to the passengers that they retraced their steps?

5. What does the rumor about the Prussians concern in the beginning of "Boule de Suif"?

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