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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Homais get into a religious debate with?
(a) Abbé Bournisien.
(b) Monsieur Lhereux.
(c) Charles.
(d) Emma.

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

3. Why is Emma scrambling for money?
(a) She gave all of her spending money to charity.
(b) She bought Berthe too many expensive toys.
(c) She paid Rodolphe to keep their affair a secret.
(d) She has to pay off Lhereux.

4. How does Homais cover up Emma's suicide?
(a) He says she mistook arsenic for sugar.
(b) He says she was murdered by Lhereux.
(c) He says that she suffered from delusions.
(d) He says that she had a heart attack.

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

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

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

8. What happens when Emma asks Rodolphe for the money?
(a) He tells her she must earn it.
(b) He says he doesn't have it.
(c) He says he will give her half.
(d) He says he needs a few days to get it.

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

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

11. What happens to the money that Charles receives from one of his clients?
(a) Emma steals it.
(b) He gives it to Emma to help pay her expenses.
(c) He loses it in a card game at Homais'.
(d) He uses it as a gift for Hippolyte.

12. 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) A new carpet.
(c) Fabric for a new mourning gown.
(d) New clothes for Berthe.

13. Who had written to Emma's father to inform him of her death?
(a) Charles' mother.
(b) Charles.
(c) Rodolphe.
(d) Monsieur Homais.

14. How does Homais think Charles should help the boy?
(a) By giving the boy newly developed medicines.
(b) By bloodletting.
(c) By calling in an outside expert.
(d) By trying a controversial new surgical technique.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Emma throw out of the cab at the end of the day?

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

3. Why do they leave the opera early?

4. How does his affair with Emma affect Léon's job?

5. How does Emma try to recuperate from her illness after a talk with Abbé Bournisien?

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