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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What present does Emma give to Léon?
(a) Some exotic plants.
(b) An ornate coverlet.
(c) A puppy.
(d) A journal.

2. Why doesn't Emma confide in the priest?
(a) Because he does not have a compassionate nature.
(b) Because she is late for dinner.
(c) Because she decides to go shopping instead.
(d) Because she decides to confide in Charles instead.

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

4. Why is Emma unhappy when she is no longer at the convent?
(a) She wants to become a nun.
(b) She feels that life is boring and uneventful.
(c) She misses her best friend.
(d) She has ended an unsatisfying love affair.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What gift does Emma receive from one of Charles' patients?

2. Where do Charles and Emma first live together as husband and wife?

3. What happens to Charles' first wife?

4. What seems to disappoint Emma about her pregnancy and the birth of her child, Berthe?

5. Why is Abbé Bournisien distracted when Emma comes to see him?

(see the answer key)

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