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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Boule de Suif," who has the best seats in the coach?
(a) Monsieur and Madame Loiseau.
(b) Monsieur and Madame Carre-Lamadon.
(c) Two Nuns.
(d) Comte and Comtesse Hubert de Breville.

2. In "Boule de Suif," who is the "terror of all respectable people"?
(a) Boule de Suif.
(b) Cornudet.
(c) Monsieur Carre-Lamadon.
(d) Comte de Breville.

3. Why do the coach passengers resemble "obese priests in their cassocks" when they meet for their seats?
(a) Because they are devout Christians.
(b) Because they are swathed in heavy winter wraps.
(c) Because they are very fat.
(d) Because they are disguised as priests.

4. In the beginning of "Boule de Suif," who do the members of the National Guard occasionally shoot?
(a) Members of their own sentinels.
(b) Members of the Russian army.
(c) Members of their own family.
(d) Members of the German army.

5. In the coach, who does Cornudet revile that makes Boule de Suif become indignant?
(a) Louis-Napoleon.
(b) Marie Antoinette.
(c) Charles X.
(d) Rousseau.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the four-horse coach decide to leave on Tuesday morning before daybreak?

2. What is the coach floor covered with as the passengers take their seats?

3. When the coach lights the lantern, what hovers over the sweating flanks of the horses and roadside?

4. According to the narrator, who feels affection for the "pomp and circumstance of despotic government"?

5. How does Boule de Suif respond to the matrons loud whispers of "hussy" and "public scandal" about her?

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