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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On the second day in Totes, the coach passengers rose early, with a _______hope of being allowed to start, a _______desire than ever to do so.
(a) Immense; smaller.
(b) Vague; smaller.
(c) Vague; greater.
(d) Strange; greater.

2. What efforts at self-control does Boule de Suif attempt to do in the coach on their trip from Totes?
(a) Draw herself up; swallow her sobs.
(b) Swallow her sobs; pull on a blanket.
(c) Swallow her sobs; close her eyes.
(d) Draw herself up; unclasp her hands.

3. What provisions does Boule de Suif bring for lunch during their trip from Totes?
(a) Fruit.
(b) Bread.
(c) Sausage.
(d) Nothing.

4. Who appears suddenly at the end of the street on their walk during the second day in Totes?
(a) The Prussian officer.
(b) Cornudet.
(c) The innkeeper.
(d) The Old Nun.

5. What kind of pies does Comtess de Breville take out in the coach for lunch on their departure from Totes?
(a) Vegetable.
(b) Fruit.
(c) Game.
(d) Chocolate.

6. When the passengers return from their walk on the second day in Totes, why do the exchange sharp words over the "merest trifles"?
(a) Because they are ill.
(b) Because they are restless.
(c) Because they are exhausted.
(d) Because they are famished.

7. Who declares after they take their seats in the coach for their departure from Totes, "What a mercy I am not sitting beside that creature!"
(a) Monsieur Carre-Lamadon.
(b) Madame Loiseau.
(c) Cornudet.
(d) Comtess de Breville.

8. On their final morning in Totes, what are the passengers doing while they wait for Boule de Suif?
(a) Putting up provisions for the remainder of the journey.
(b) Waiting by the fireplace with blankets for the trip.
(c) Dining at the village cafe with the coach driver.
(d) Cleaning out their rooms for the next guests.

9. On their walk the second day in Totes, what do the ladies discuss as the men talk of war?
(a) Dress.
(b) Literature.
(c) Children.
(d) Food.

10. 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 immodesty.
(b) A thin veneer of modesty.
(c) A thick veneer of modesty.
(d) A thin veneer of immodesty.

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

12. On the third day in Totes, which person suggests that the should persuade Boule de Suif to sleep with the Prussian?
(a) Cornudet.
(b) Monsieur Follenvie.
(c) Loiseau.
(d) The Count.

13. Where does Boule de Suif sit in the coach on their departure from Totes?
(a) In the front seat.
(b) In the same seat.
(c) In the middle seat.
(d) In the back seat.

14. How do the passengers respond when Boule de Suif arrives at the coach for their departure?
(a) The men help her while the women ignore her.
(b) They turn aside as if they had not seen her.
(c) They greet her warmly as if she had been on vacation.
(d) The women thank her while the men ignore her.

15. On the third day the passengers are in Totes, why are the ladies pleasant to Boule de Suif until lunch time?
(a) To increase her confidence and make her amenable to their advice.
(b) To decrease her confidence and make her suspect their advice.
(c) To decrease her confidence and make her amenable to their advice.
(d) To increase her confidence and make her suspect their advice.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who breaks the "painful silence" in the coach as they began on their departure from Totes?

2. What does Boule de Suif remember about their trip to Totes in the coach departing from it?

3. Whose "vulgar temperament broke bounds" after Monsieur Follenvie returned from the Prussian officer's room on the third day in Totes?

4. On the third day in Totes, which person suggests that they deliver Boule de Suif "bound hand and foot" to the Prussian officer?

5. When the coach starts on its departure from Totes, what is Boule de Suif's attitude toward her neighbors?

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