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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What happens after Léon and Emma run into Monsieur Lhereux?
(a) Léon breaks off the relationship.
(b) Emma confesses her affair to Charles.
(c) Emma and Léon run off to Paris.
(d) Lhereux asks Emma for more money.

3. What does Charles do when Emma becomes violently ill?
(a) He sends for Léon.
(b) He sends for Abbé Bournisien so that she can confess.
(c) He is disgusted and leaves her.
(d) He calls for other doctors.

4. What is unusual to people about the cab that Léon and Emma ride in?
(a) It is stopped all day by the river.
(b) The blinds are drawn.
(c) It is drawn by only one horse.
(d) They are riding up front with the coachman.

5. What annoys Emma about Charles during the performance?
(a) He sings along.
(b) He leaves without her.
(c) He keeps talking to her.
(d) He falls asleep.

6. How does Emma try to recuperate from her illness after a talk with Abbé Bournisien?
(a) By rediscovering religion.
(b) By painting portraits of her family.
(c) By returning to horseback riding.
(d) By reading poetry.

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

8. Who runs the house while Emma is ill?
(a) Charles' mother.
(b) Charles.
(c) Félicité.
(d) Monsieur Homais.

9. What is the name of the tenor featured in the opera the Bovarys see?
(a) Lagardy.
(b) Rubini.
(c) Tambourini.
(d) Grisi.

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

11. Where does Emma sit that makes her think back on the important events of her life?
(a) In the cathedral.
(b) By the river.
(c) In front of the opera house.
(d) In front of her old convent.

12. How does Homais explain his religious philosophy to Abbé Bournisien?
(a) He believes in Protestantism.
(b) He is a devout Catholic.
(c) He is an Atheist.
(d) He admires Christianity.

13. How do Rodolphe and Emma often pass notes to each other?
(a) Packed in a box of fruit.
(b) Folded into the pages of a book.
(c) Hidden in Charles' medicine bag.
(d) They leave them under a bench.

14. Why is Emma preparing for a trip?
(a) She is going to visit her father.
(b) She has decided to run off with Rodolphe.
(c) She is bringing Berthe to stay with relatives.
(d) She is going to Paris to meet Léon.

15. Once she gets a bit of money what does Emma purchase from Lhereux?
(a) New clothes for Berthe.
(b) Furnishings for Léon's apartment.
(c) New draperies and a carpet.
(d) Medical equipment for Charles.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Charles owe money to Monsieur Homais?

2. Who has Lhereux sold Emma's promissory notes to?

3. Who is absent from Emma's funeral?

4. What does Emma threaten to do to her beloved piano?

5. Who visits the Bovarys and is shocked by Emma's behavior?

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