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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. How many hours has the coach been on the road for when they see the lights glimmer from Totes?
2. What country are the passengers in "Boule de Suif" traveling through on a coach?
3. At the beginning of the story, the vanquished in the city of Rouen realize they had to be civil to whom?
4. What is Boule de Suif's real name?
5. At dinner the first day in Totes, who manifested a lively and tender sympathy for Boule de Suif?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Cornudet notice about the Loiseaus during their card game before dinner the first day in Totes?
2. 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?
3. What do the passengers begin to call Boule de Suif in order to persuade her to sleep with the Prussian officer?
4. How does Boule de Suif respond to the Prussian's inquiry about whether or not she has changed her mind, and why is it significant?
5. What are the other passengers' reaction to Cornudet's whistling and humming at the end of "Boule de Suif" and how does Cornudet react?
6. What is the old nun's specialty and why is it significant?
7. What are Cornudet's political views and why are they significant?
8. How do the women converse about Boule de Suif and the Prussian and what does it signify?
9. Why does Cornudet whistle and hum in the coach at the end of "Boule de Suif"?
10. What happens once the Prussians arrive in Rouen and why is it significant?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Compare & contrast Cornudet and the Prussian officer.
1) What are the similarities in their treatment of Boule de Suif?
2) What are the differences in their treatment of Boule de Suif?
Essay Topic 2
Who is the main antagonist in "Boule de Suif"? Is it the Prussian officer or the other passengers?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss authorial point of view in the story.
1) What are Maupassant's views on his characters?
2) Who does he sympathize with, and why?
3) How does the tone and choice of words reveal the authorial point of view?
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