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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the primary activity of the weekly Sunday parties at the Homais home?
(a) Book discussions.
(b) Excessive drinking of wine.
(c) Card-playing.
(d) A salon of political conversation.

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

3. How does Monsieur Rouault compensate Charles for setting his leg?
(a) He gives him a horse.
(b) He gives him 5 francs.
(c) He gives him a house on his estate.
(d) He gives him 75 francs and a turkey.

4. How long does it take Monsieur Rouault to begin walking after he has broken his leg?
(a) 6 months.
(b) 46 days.
(c) 4 days.
(d) 2 years.

5. Why doesn't Emma buy anything from Monsieur Lhereux?
(a) He offends her with his coarse manner.
(b) She is too ill to buy anything.
(c) She wants to wait for Charles to help her decide what to purchase.
(d) She doesn't want to spend the money.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the town clerk who boards with the Homais family and is incredibly bored with the provincial life in Yonville?

2. How does Charles eventually convince Emma to go riding with Rodolphe?

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

4. What does Emma do to try to regain interest in her domestic responsibilities as a wife and mother?

5. What is Monsieur Homais' nephew Justin's future career?

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