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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What happens after Léon and Emma run into Monsieur Lhereux?
(a) Lhereux asks Emma for more money.
(b) Léon breaks off the relationship.
(c) Emma confesses her affair to Charles.
(d) Emma and Léon run off to Paris.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Charles think Emma has gone?

2. What does Léon find on their boat ride that makes the boatman tell them about his previous customers?

3. Who runs the house while Emma is ill?

4. Why is Emma scrambling for money?

5. What is the name of the tenor featured in the opera the Bovarys see?

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