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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Homais think Charles should help the boy?

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

4. What does Emma tell Justin she needs the arsenic for?

5. Where does Charles think Emma has gone?

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