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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On the second day in Totes, the coach passengers, for want of something better to do before lunch, do what?
(a) Nap in their rooms.
(b) Wander around the coach.
(c) Walk to the square.
(d) Read by the fire.

2. As Cornudet settles beside the kitchen fireplace, what does he do as he "sucked the foam from his mustache" the first day in Totes?
(a) Shook with laughter and held his belly with his greasy fingers.
(b) Crossed his long legs near the fire.
(c) Turned the pages of a book with his long fingers.
(d) Passed his long fingers through his long greasy hair.

3. What year does the story "Boule de Suif" take place?
(a) 1871.
(b) 1671.
(c) 1971.
(d) 1771.

4. What object does Cornudet use that is described as "admirably colored to a black the shade of its owner's teeth"?
(a) A pipe.
(b) A wallet.
(c) A jug.
(d) A Bible.

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) The Old Nun.
(c) Madame Loiseau.
(d) Boule de Suif.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the nuns do in the coach on their departure from Totes?

2. What object does Loiseau take out in the coach on their departure from Totes, that is "thick with the grease of five years' contact with half-wiped tables"?

3. What is the clatter that can be heard in the coach as they make their journey from Totes?

4. 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.

5. As they talked on their walk the second day in Totes, what is the prevailing feeling among the women?

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