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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do Emma and Léon meet when they are in the city?
(a) In a stagecoach.
(b) In Léon's apartment.
(c) At the home of Léon's employer.
(d) In a gaudily decorated hotel room.

2. Why does Charles suggest Emma stay on in Rouen without him?
(a) To catch up with Léon.
(b) To settle some debts.
(c) To see another showing of the Opera.
(d) To buy some new clothes.

3. What is the title of the book that Justin is caught with?
(a) Medicines and Poisons.
(b) Political Revolutions.
(c) Conjugal Love.
(d) Ivanhoe.

4. Why does Homais think Charles should help the stable boy, Hippolyte?
(a) He has a weak heart.
(b) He has a deformed foot.
(c) He has a nervous stomach.
(d) He has had an accident and broken his leg.

5. Where does Charles think Emma has gone?
(a) To see Monsieur Homais.
(b) To Rouen.
(c) To the church.
(d) To see Rodolphe.

6. Who do Charles and Emma run into at the opera?
(a) Léon.
(b) Monsieur Homais.
(c) Monsieur Lhereux.
(d) Abbé Bournisien.

7. How long does Emma's illness last after she reads Rodolphe's letter?
(a) 43 days.
(b) One year.
(c) 6 months.
(d) A week.

8. What happens when the Bovarys arrive at the theater?
(a) They get robbed.
(b) They are late.
(c) They are too early.
(d) They run into Lhereux.

9. How does Emma try to raise the money to pay off her debts?
(a) By selling her things.
(b) She asks for the remaining sum of Charles' squandered inheritance.
(c) All answers are correct.
(d) By sending bills to Charles' patients.

10. How does Emma's behavior begin to reflect her new, more daring lifestyle?
(a) All answers are correct.
(b) She speaks openly of political and religious issues.
(c) She smokes in public.
(d) She begins wearing different fashions than she did before.

11. Why does Charles leave Emma during the opera?
(a) To meet some colleagues.
(b) To get some fresh air.
(c) To get her a drink.
(d) To get more money.

12. What does Emma's father do when he arrives in Yonville?
(a) He faints.
(b) He demands to see Monsieur Lhereux.
(c) He gets into an argument with Charles.
(d) He immediately takes over the funeral arrangements.

13. What are Charles' specifications for Emma's funeral?
(a) She should have 3 coffins.
(b) She should be buried in her wedding dress.
(c) No expense is to be spared.
(d) All answers are correct.

14. How does his affair with Emma affect Léon's job?
(a) All answers are correct.
(b) He begins putting on airs.
(c) He avoids the company of his colleagues.
(d) He neglects his work.

15. How does Flaubert describe Emma's three days with Léon in Rouen?
(a) Tedious.
(b) A nightmare.
(c) Like a true honeymoon.
(d) Like a romance from Sir Walter Scott.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when Emma asks Rodolphe for the money?

2. When Emma receives Rodolphe's letter breaking it off with her, what is her first thought to do?

3. After he helps the boy, how is he rewarded?

4. What bad news does Homais break to Emma?

5. What is Emma's emotion when she leaves Lhereux after finding out about the impending auction of her possessions?

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