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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3: Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is the ball held where Emma meets Vicomte?
(a) At her parents' home at Bertaux.
(b) At Emma and Charles' home at Les Bertaux.
(c) At Charles' home at Tostes.
(d) La Vaubyessard.

2. How does Homais think Charles should help the boy?
(a) By bloodletting.
(b) By giving the boy newly developed medicines.
(c) By calling in an outside expert.
(d) By trying a controversial new surgical technique.

3. Where does Léon want to go to finish his law studies?
(a) Rome.
(b) Paris.
(c) London.
(d) America.

4. What does Flaubert compare the stagecoach to?
(a) A fire pit.
(b) A tomb.
(c) A wedding bed.
(d) A flying carpet.

5. What city does Emma dream of visiting by tracing maps of it?
(a) London.
(b) New York.
(c) Rome.
(d) Paris.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why doesn't Emma confide in the priest?

2. What is the name of the tenor featured in the opera the Bovarys see?

3. Why do the townspeople believe Justin spends so much time at the Bovary home?

4. Where does Boulanger decide his seduction of Emma will begin?

5. How does Emma try to recuperate from her illness after a talk with Abbé Bournisien?

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