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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Monsieur Lhereux try to sell to Emma?
(a) Books.
(b) Dry goods and linens.
(c) Produce.
(d) Shoes.

2. Why does Monsieur Rodolphe Boulanger call on Charles?
(a) For nutritional advice.
(b) He is interested in becoming a doctor.
(c) For a bloodletting.
(d) He has broken his leg.

3. What seems to disappoint Emma about her pregnancy and the birth of her child, Berthe?
(a) It provides one more attachment to a middle-class, provincial life.
(b) All answers are correct.
(c) It is a girl and not a boy.
(d) She cannot afford to buy the layette that she wants.

4. What happens on Emma's wedding night that causes some people to think that she and her father are acting above their class?
(a) She leaves early without saying goodbye.
(b) She serves wine only to the wealthy guests.
(c) She forgets to say "thank you" to her guests.
(d) She refuses to allow wedding pranks to be played on her.

5. Why does Emma move her bedroom into the parlor of the Bovary home?
(a) So she doesn't have to be as close to Charles.
(b) So she can watch Léon walk his dog.
(c) Because her bedroom is not warm enough as winter approaches.
(d) Because she is experiencing postpartum depression.

Short Answer Questions

1. As Emma and Léon get to know each other, what do they originally discuss?

2. Who does Emma end up confiding in about her convoluted emotions?

3. Why doesn't Binet believe her?

4. What award is being presented as Rodolphe professes his love for Emma?

5. Where is Emma when she compares her husband to Léon and begins to realize that she is no longer in love with her husband?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Emma show in Chapter 4 that makes her wedding guests concerned about her?

2. How does Rodolphe react to Emma's reappearance in his life in Part 3: Chapter 8?

3. What tactics does Emma use in Part 3: Chapter 3 to get to see Léon on a more regular basis?

4. What character types do the animals at the fair symbolize in Chapter 2: Part 8?

5. What clues does the boatman give in Part 3: Chapter 3 that suggest he has recently had Rodolphe as a customer?

6. Emma seeks comfort in the church in Part 2: Chapter 6. How does her interaction with Abbé Bournisien reflect on her personal interaction with religion?

7. How does Emma's funeral in Part 3: Chapter 9 compare with Emma's day-to-day life?

8. In Part 2: Chapter 2, Emma meets Léon. What is it about him that Emma finds attractive?

9. Part 2: Chapter 7 introduces the reader to the foreshadowed relationship between Rodolphe and Emma. What are Rodolphe's perceptions of Emma's character?

10. In Part 2: Chapter 2 Emma reflects on each of the 4 different beds she has slept on in her life. How does each of these beds represent an important stage in her development as a character?

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