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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Boule de Suif react to the passengers' response to her when she arrives at the coach for their departure?
(a) She is grateful and happy.
(b) She is stupefied with astonishment.
(c) She is humbled by their generosity.
(d) She is relieved from anxiety.

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

3. On their walk the second day in Totes, what looks "so mournful and depressing" to the passengers that they retraced their steps?
(a) The empty storefronts.
(b) The open country.
(c) The tattered houses.
(d) The winding roads.

4. According to Monsieur Carre-Lamadon, if the French made a counter attack by way of Dieppe, their encounter with the enemy would inevitably take place where?
(a) Marseilles.
(b) Paris.
(c) Rouen.
(d) Totes.

5. What is the subject Monsieur Carre-Lamadon is discussing with his companion in the coach from Totes?
(a) Religion.
(b) Politics.
(c) Business.
(d) War.

6. When Boule de Suif arrives at the coach from their departure from Totes, why do the tier skirts appear "infected with some deadly disease"?
(a) Because they didn't want to touch Boule de Suif.
(b) Because they were infected with disease.
(c) Because they weren't laundered before departure.
(d) Because Boule de Suif's son died from disease.

7. As they discuss the Prussian officer on the third day in Totes, why does Madame Carre-Lamadon's eyes glisten and her face grow pale?
(a) Because she is imagining the officer proposing marriage to her.
(b) Because she is imagining the officer laying his violent hands on her.
(c) Because she is imagining the officer abducting her.
(d) Because she is imagining the officer tenderly embracing her.

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

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

10. What is the description given of the person who chuckles at Boule de Suif's crying in the coach from Totes?
(a) Unintelligent.
(b) Bored.
(c) Hostile.
(d) Triumphant.

11. During their trip from Totes, what does Cornudet remove from his loose overcoat in the coach?
(a) Hard-boiled eggs and bread.
(b) Fruit and bread.
(c) Hard-boiled eggs and fruit.
(d) Wine and bread.

12. 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!"
(a) Cornudet.
(b) Madame Loiseau.
(c) Madame Carre-Lamadon.
(d) Monsieur Follenvie.

13. During their trip from Totes, why does Boule de Suif want to open her lips "to shriek the truth at them, to overwhelm them with a volley of insults"?
(a) Because they were throwing food and shouting at her.
(b) Because they were laughing and pointing at her.
(c) Because they were lying and stealing from her.
(d) Because they were eating and ignoring her.

14. Who is talking to Monsieur Carre-Lamadon as the ladies discuss Madame d'Etrelles in the coach from Totes?
(a) Cornudet.
(b) The coach driver.
(c) Comte de Breville.
(d) Monsieur Loiseau.

15. What powerful argument does the Countess make the most of regarding the Church at dinner the third day in Totes?
(a) That the Church readily pardons crimes when they are done for the glory of God or good of mankind.
(b) That the Church sometimes pardons crimes even if they are not done for the glory of God or the good of mankind.
(c) That the Church will not pardon crimes that are not done for the glory of God or the good of mankind.
(d) That the Church doesn't pardon crimes even when they are done for the glory of God or good of mankind

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the rest of the company do after Boule de Suif leaves for church on the third day in Totes?

2. In the coach from Totes, Cornudet _____like a man who had just thought of a good _______.

3. On their walk the second day in Totes, why does the Count tell Loiseau that "we should be pursued at once, overtaken in ten minutes, and brought back as prisoners at the mercy of the soldiery"?

4. What is the song Cornudet begins to hum in the coach at the end of "Boule de Suif" about?

5. 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"?

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