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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Emma move her bedroom into the parlor of the Bovary home?
(a) So she can watch Léon walk his dog.
(b) Because she is experiencing postpartum depression.
(c) So she doesn't have to be as close to Charles.
(d) Because her bedroom is not warm enough as winter approaches.

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

3. What happens to Charles' first wife?
(a) She dies after becoming financially ruined.
(b) She leaves him for a local priest.
(c) She runs off to Paris to become an actress.
(d) She is killed by a horse.

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

5. How has Lhereux ruined the life of a local townsman?
(a) He competed with the man's business.
(b) He has bankrupted him through exorbitant loans.
(c) He stole his wife.
(d) He got him censured for unethical business practices.

6. What seems to set Rodolphe apart from other men at the fair?
(a) He is very elaborately dressed.
(b) He rides a horse through the fair.
(c) He is very talkative and engages everyone he meets in conversation.
(d) He is dressed very poorly.

7. What is the main topic of conversation at Emma's first dinner in Yonville?
(a) Local town gossip.
(b) Medicine and the weather.
(c) Political upheaval.
(d) Religion.

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

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

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

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

12. What does Charles want to give to Emma as a present?
(a) A new dress.
(b) A new dog.
(c) A portrait of himself.
(d) An antique ring.

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

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

15. What is Monsieur Binet doing when Emma runs into him on the way to visit Rodolphe?
(a) Collecting unpaid taxes from Rodolphe's neighbor.
(b) Spying on Emma.
(c) Duck hunting.
(d) Farming.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Charles think he and Emma should move?

2. What is the primary activity of the weekly Sunday parties at the Homais home?

3. What language does Emma decide she should learn to make herself feel better?

4. Why does Emma fire her maid upon returning from the ball?

5. What career does Charles Bovary eventually settle on to please his mother?

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