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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After suggesting a method of gaining more money for Emma, what does Monsieur Lhereux try to sell her?
(a) New furniture for her living room.
(b) Fabric for a new mourning gown.
(c) A new carpet.
(d) New clothes for Berthe.

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

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

4. When he visits Emma in Yonville, where does Léon first meet her?
(a) In Charles' office.
(b) At the Homais home.
(c) In Monsieur Binet's room.
(d) In the lane behind her garden.

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

6. How does Emma explain her absence the night she doesn't return home?
(a) She says she had taken ill.
(b) She says she fell asleep.
(c) She says she missed her coach.
(d) She says she was playing in a recital.

7. What is physically wrong with the beggar that Emma encounters on her way home to Yonville?
(a) He has a hunchback.
(b) He is blind.
(c) He is missing his arms and legs.
(d) He is covered with pestilent sores.

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

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

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

11. Who does Léon entertain that causes him to be late for a rendezvous with Emma?
(a) Rodolphe.
(b) Charles.
(c) Monsieur Lhereux.
(d) Monsieur Homais.

12. What happens when Charles encounters Emma's supposed piano teacher, Mademoiselle Lempereur?
(a) She reveals to Charles Emma's affair.
(b) She is not familiar with Emma's name.
(c) She asks for more money.
(d) She says that Emma is a gifted student.

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

14. What does Flaubert compare the stagecoach to?
(a) A flying carpet.
(b) A wedding bed.
(c) A fire pit.
(d) A tomb.

15. How long after Emma's death did her father learn of it?
(a) A week.
(b) 24 hours.
(c) 3 days.
(d) 5 days.

Short Answer Questions

1. Besides his wife's illness, what other factor in Charles' life is causing him stress?

2. What kind of student was Léon while he was in school in Paris?

3. Why does Charles owe money to Monsieur Homais?

4. What is unusual to people about the cab that Léon and Emma ride in?

5. How does Homais explain his religious philosophy to Abbé Bournisien?

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