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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As Emma and Léon get to know each other, what do they originally discuss?
(a) Far away places.
(b) Horses.
(c) Medicine.
(d) Literature.

2. What career does Charles Bovary eventually settle on to please his mother?
(a) Shopkeeper.
(b) Doctor.
(c) Lawyer.
(d) Farmer.

3. Who came to the convent to tell fantastic stories to the girls there?
(a) A spinster who helped with the sewing.
(b) Félicité.
(c) Leon Dupuis.
(d) A visiting priest.

4. What happens on Emma's wedding night that causes some people to think that she and her father are acting above their class?
(a) She serves wine only to the wealthy guests.
(b) She leaves early without saying goodbye.
(c) She refuses to allow wedding pranks to be played on her.
(d) She forgets to say "thank you" to her guests.

5. Where do Charles and Emma first live together as husband and wife?
(a) Paris.
(b) England.
(c) Charles' home at Tostes.
(d) Emma's home at Bertaux.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one of Emma's favorite pastimes?

2. What city does Emma dream of visiting by tracing maps of it?

3. Why did Charles' father, Charles Denis Bartholomé Bovary, get removed from his post as an Army surgeon?

4. What is an early routine that Charles and Emma establish as newlyweds?

5. Where is the center of activity in Yonville?

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