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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What event does Homais disclose is coming to Yonville?
(a) A large agricultural exhibition.
(b) A fashion show.
(c) A traveling circus.
(d) A display of scientific artifacts.

2. Why did Charles' father, Charles Denis Bartholomé Bovary, get removed from his post as an Army surgeon?
(a) He was chronically absent from work.
(b) He was laundering money to pay gambling debts.
(c) He was involved in a scandal involving prescriptions.
(d) He had an affair with his superior's wife.

3. Why is Boulanger's attention in such high demand at the fair?
(a) He has raised a prize-winning sow.
(b) He has financed the entire fair.
(c) He is one of Yonville's foremost contributors to agriculture.
(d) He has invented a groundbreaking new agricultural tool.

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

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

6. What happens to Justin while Charles is helping Boulanger?
(a) He continually interrupts the doctor.
(b) He confesses his love for Emma.
(c) He decides he no longer wants to be a doctor.
(d) He faints.

7. What memento does Emma burn in a fit of depression?
(a) Her wedding dress.
(b) Her favorite books.
(c) Her bridal bouquet.
(d) Her love letters from Charles.

8. Where does Boulanger decide his seduction of Emma will begin?
(a) Emma's home.
(b) At a dance he is organizing.
(c) During one of the Homais' Sunday parties.
(d) The agricultural show.

9. What seems to disappoint Emma about her pregnancy and the birth of her child, Berthe?
(a) She cannot afford to buy the layette that she wants.
(b) It is a girl and not a boy.
(c) All answers are correct.
(d) It provides one more attachment to a middle-class, provincial life.

10. Why do the townspeople believe Justin spends so much time at the Bovary home?
(a) Because he has a crush on the maid.
(b) Because he wants to become a doctor like Charles.
(c) Because he is in love with Emma.
(d) Because he no longer wants to work for his uncle.

11. How old was Emma when she was sent to the convent to study?
(a) 5.
(b) 13.
(c) 18.
(d) 2.

12. What gift does Emma receive from one of Charles' patients?
(a) A dog.
(b) A dress.
(c) A canary.
(d) A ring.

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

14. What does Charles find when he helps riders repair their cart?
(a) A gold coin.
(b) A rose.
(c) A book of poetry.
(d) A cigar case.

15. During the fair, a woman wins a monetary award for what remarkable achievement?
(a) She was the first woman to win an agricultural prize.
(b) She has worked at the same farm her entire life.
(c) She has had 11 children.
(d) She has raised the winning sheep for 5 years in a row.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the main topic of conversation at Emma's first dinner in Yonville?

3. Why doesn't Binet believe her?

4. Where does Léon want to go to finish his law studies?

5. How many different beds does Emma realize that she has slept in during her short life?

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