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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Léon's employer suggest he do about Emma?
(a) Break off the affair.
(b) Take her to Paris.
(c) Marry her.
(d) Pay off her debts.

3. After he helps the boy, how is he rewarded?
(a) He is given dresses for Emma and Berthe.
(b) He is given a large sum of money.
(c) An article is written about him in the newspaper.
(d) He is given an award by the local medical society.

4. 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.

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

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

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

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

9. Eventually, what happens to Hippolyte?
(a) He dies.
(b) His foot needs to be amputated.
(c) He sues Charles and Homais.
(d) He recovers completely.

10. Besides his wife's illness, what other factor in Charles' life is causing him stress?
(a) He is in poor health himself.
(b) He is having an affair.
(c) He is having financial troubles.
(d) He is getting his medical license suspended.

11. What does Emma want Charles to buy for Hippolyte?
(a) A cottage.
(b) A grave marker.
(c) Two wooden legs.
(d) A new horse.

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

13. What does Charles' mother decide to do after Emma's death?
(a) Take him to Paris.
(b) Move in with him in Yonville.
(c) Try to find him a new wife.
(d) Take him on a tour of Europe.

14. Why do they leave the opera early?
(a) It is too warm.
(b) They are tired.
(c) They have to meet friends for dinner.
(d) They need to catch their coach.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How long after Emma's death did her father learn of it?

3. When he visits Emma in Yonville, where does Léon first meet her?

4. What do Léon and Emma do during their time together?

5. Why does Charles leave Emma during the opera?

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