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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Boule de Suif arrives at the coach for their departure from Totes, how does Madame Carre-Lamadon respond to her greeting?
(a) With a cool handshake and look of graceful humility.
(b) With a insolent nod and look of outraged virtue.
(c) With a warm smile and look of excessive gratitude.
(d) With an abrupt embrace and look of restrained gallantry.

2. What three people decide NOT to go for a walk in the village neighborhood?
(a) Cornudet, Boule de Suif, and the Puny Nun.
(b) Cornudet, Boule de Suif, and the Old Nun.
(c) Cornudet, the Old Nun, and the Puny Nun.
(d) Boule de Suif, the Old Nun, and the Puny Nun.

3. What is the weather like as the passengers wait for their seats in "Boule de Suif"?
(a) It is snowing.
(b) It is cloudy.
(c) It is raining.
(d) It is sunny.

4. When the coach lights the lantern, what hovers over the sweating flanks of the horses and roadside?
(a) A dense fog.
(b) A cloud of vapor.
(c) A light mist.
(d) A shadow of moonlight.

5. Who asked suddenly as they retrace their steps on the second day of Totes, "if that trollop were going to keep them waiting much longer in this Godforsaken spot"?
(a) Loiseau.
(b) Cornudet.
(c) Madame Carre-Lamadon.
(d) The Count.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the coach driver doing when the male passengers find him the morning of the first day in Totes?

2. Why do the male passengers want to meet with the Prussian officer after luncheon the first day in Totes?

3. Who states after dinner the third day in Totes, "when women run after uniforms it's all the same to them whether the men who wear them are French or Prussian. It's perfectly sickening!"

4. What country are the passengers in "Boule de Suif" traveling through on a coach?

5. 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.

(see the answer key)

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