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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What instrument does Monsieur Follenvie's chest sound like during the card game the first day in Totes?
(a) A drum.
(b) A guitar.
(c) An organ.
(d) A horn.

2. In "Boule de Suif," who has the best seats in the coach?
(a) Comte and Comtesse Hubert de Breville.
(b) Monsieur and Madame Carre-Lamadon.
(c) Two Nuns.
(d) Monsieur and Madame Loiseau.

3. As they begin to share the provisions Boule de Suif offers, what do they talk about?
(a) War.
(b) Family.
(c) Romance.
(d) Education.

4. "Boule de Suif" is set during which war?
(a) Napoleonic.
(b) Spanish.
(c) Franco-Prussian.
(d) WWI.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cornudet notice about Loiseau and his wife as they pass the two hours before dinner the first day in Totes?

2. What is Boule de Suif's real name?

3. At dinner the first day in Totes, who manifested a lively and tender sympathy for Boule de Suif?

4. Who faints from hunger after the odor of food permeates the coach in the story?

5. Who tells Monsieur Follenvie to "Kindly tell the scoundrel, that carrion of a Prussian, that I will never consent"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are Boule de Suif's political views and what do they signify?

2. What is Maupassant's attitude toward the old nun as the countess tries to manipulate Boule de Suif in sleeping with the Prussian officer?

3. On their walk the second afternoon in Totes, how does the landscape fit with the passengers' mood?

4. What analogy does Maupassant make in order to describe how the passengers discuss their strategies in approaching Boule de Suif about sleeping with the Prussian officer, and why is it significant?

5. How does Boule de Suif reject Cornudet's advances and what does it signify?

6. How do the other passengers respond to Boule de Suif's outburst after being questioned by the coach passengers about the Prussian officer's inquiry regarding her?

7. In contrast to the other passengers, what does Boule de Suif realize in the coach departing Totes about the comprising situation they put her in?

8. What word does Boule de Suif use to describe to the other coach passengers the Prussian officer's intentions toward her and how is it significant?

9. What does Boule de Suif remember in the coach as the passengers eat their lunch without sharing it with her at the end of "Boule de Suif" and why is it significant?

10. What does Boule de Suif bring for lunch and why is it significant?

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