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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 an abrupt embrace and look of restrained gallantry.
(c) With a insolent nod and look of outraged virtue.
(d) With a warm smile and look of excessive gratitude.

2. What do the nuns do in the coach on their departure from Totes?
(a) Read.
(b) Pray.
(c) Sleep.
(d) Eat.

3. When the ladies talk about the Prussian soldier on their walk the second day, why does Madame Carre-Lamadon state that she regrets the soldier is not a Frenchman?
(a) Because he would have been more generous.
(b) Because he would have made a handome hussar.
(c) Because he would have been a kind husband.
(d) Because he would have set them free.

4. 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?
(a) A thick veneer of modesty.
(b) A thin veneer of modesty.
(c) A thin veneer of immodesty.
(d) A thick veneer of immodesty.

5. Why does Cornudet follow Boule de Suif to her room their first night in Totes?
(a) To request she spy on their passengers.
(b) To make sexual advances toward her.
(c) To invite her for a late night supper.
(d) To ask her to speak to the Prussian officer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What settles on the city of Rouen in the beginning of "Boule de Suif"?

2. Why are the married women "utterly humiliated" at being met by the person on their walk the second day?

3. What is NOT one of the reasons the coach passengers discuss in the kitchen after the meeting with the Prussian officer the first day in Totes?

4. Why do the men invite Monsieur Follenvie to join their card game after dinner the first day in Totes?

5. Why does the person who appears suddenly at the end of the street on the second day in Totes walk with in a peculiar motion with knees apart?

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