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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1: Chapter 9 | Part 2: Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one of Emma's favorite pastimes?
(a) Carving figurines.
(b) Writing letters.
(c) Reading romance novels.
(d) Gardening.

2. Where do Charles and Emma meet?
(a) On a ship going to England.
(b) At Les Bertaux, the home of Monsieur Rouault.
(c) At a party in Paris given by Emma's cousins.
(d) In the forest.

3. Why did Charles' father, Charles Denis Bartholomé Bovary, get removed from his post as an Army surgeon?
(a) He was chronically absent from work.
(b) He was laundering money to pay gambling debts.
(c) He was involved in a scandal involving prescriptions.
(d) He had an affair with his superior's wife.

4. What causes Emma to return to Bertaux from the convent?
(a) Her mother died.
(b) She lost her faith.
(c) Her father died.
(d) She fell in love.

5. What is one of the things that Charles does to show his complete adoration of Emma?
(a) He takes her to Rome.
(b) He writes her a love poem.
(c) He has a portrait painted of her by her favorite artist.
(d) He frames her sketches.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Charles find when he helps riders repair their cart?

2. How does Emma spend her engagement period to Charles?

3. How does Monsieur Rouault compensate Charles for setting his leg?

4. Where in Yonville is Homais waiting for the Bovarys to arrive?

5. Charles and Emma's relationship grows as they are alone one day discussing what?

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