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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As they talked on their walk the second day in Totes, what is the prevailing feeling among the women?
(a) Sorrow.
(b) Pleasure.
(c) Anxiety.
(d) Constraint.

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

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 open country.
(b) The tattered houses.
(c) The empty storefronts.
(d) The winding roads.

4. 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.

5. As they discuss persuading Boule de Suif on the third day in Totes, how did the Count utter several "rather risky witticisms"?
(a) Softly.
(b) Loudly.
(c) Tactfully.
(d) Easily.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Loiseau suggest the company should ask the officer after Boule de Suif leaves for church on the third day in Totes?

2. 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"?

3. What efforts at self-control does Boule de Suif attempt to do in the coach on their trip from Totes?

4. 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?

5. During their gloomy luncheon the second day in Totes, what are the passengers' attitude toward Boule de Suif?

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