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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does Charles owe money to Monsieur Homais?
(a) To pay for new clothes for Berthe.
(b) To pay off a loan.
(c) To pay him back for helping with Hippolyte.
(d) To pay for the expenses incurred during Emma's illness.

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

4. Where do Emma and Léon decide to meet each other?
(a) At Léon's apartment.
(b) At Léon's office.
(c) At the cathedral.
(d) On a boat.

5. Who visits the Bovarys and is shocked by Emma's behavior?
(a) Léon.
(b) Emma's father.
(c) Charles' father.
(d) Charles' mother.

6. What event does Charles think will help Emma return to good spirits?
(a) Going to a party at Homais'.
(b) Visiting her father.
(c) Hosting a dinner party.
(d) Seeing an opera at Rouen.

7. Who does Emma call out for in her final moments?
(a) Rodolphe.
(b) The blind man.
(c) Léon.
(d) Vicomte.

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

9. What does Charles do during Emma's funeral?
(a) He accuses Lhereux of causing her death.
(b) He tries to throw himself into her grave.
(c) He is aloof and without emotion.
(d) He rails against her character.

10. What does Léon find on their boat ride that makes the boatman tell them about his previous customers?
(a) A gold ring.
(b) A love poem.
(c) A silk ribbon.
(d) A champagne glass.

11. Who is absent from Emma's funeral?
(a) Rodolphe.
(b) All answers are correct.
(c) Léon.
(d) Monsieur Binet.

12. To whom does the boatman allude having been on the boat recently?
(a) Rodolphe.
(b) Monsieur Lhereux.
(c) Charles.
(d) Abbé Bournisien.

13. What do Léon and Emma do during their time together?
(a) Go on a boat ride.
(b) Eat in a tavern.
(c) All answers are correct.
(d) Lie in the grass.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What bad news does Homais break to Emma?

2. How does Flaubert describe Emma's three days with Léon in Rouen?

3. Why does Homais think Charles should help the stable boy, Hippolyte?

4. How long does Emma's illness last after she reads Rodolphe's letter?

5. Who do Charles and Emma run into at the opera?

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