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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. Who does Emma meet on her way to visit the wet nurse?
(a) Charles.
(b) Monsieur Homais.
(c) Léon.
(d) Charles' father.

2. What event causes the delay of the "Hirondelle" and also marks the loss of Emma's last remaining confidante?
(a) Emma tells Charles her true feelings about her provincial life.
(b) Emma fires her new maid.
(c) Emma's greyhound runs away.
(d) Emma accuses Charles of having an affair.

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

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

5. Charles and Emma's relationship grows as they are alone one day discussing what?
(a) Childhood memories and times at school.
(b) Banking.
(c) Farming.
(d) Popular fashions and town gossip.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long does it take Monsieur Rouault to begin walking after he has broken his leg?

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. The novel begins with a description of this character's experience in school. Who is this character?

5. Where does Emma wish she had spent her honeymoon with Charles?

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