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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why are the married women "utterly humiliated" at being met by the person on their walk the second day?
(a) Because they are in the company of the innkeeper.
(b) Because they are in the company of Cornudet.
(c) Because they are in the company of Loiseau.
(d) Because they are in the company of Boule de Suif.

2. In the beginning of "Boule de Suif," what happens to the National Guards' arms, uniforms, and death dealing paraphernalia?
(a) It was quickly burned.
(b) It was slowly buried.
(c) It appeared intermittently.
(d) It suddenly disappeared.

3. At dinner the first day in Totes, who manifested a lively and tender sympathy for Boule de Suif?
(a) The innkeepers.
(b) The women.
(c) The nuns.
(d) The men.

4. Who asked suddenly as they retrace their steps on the second day of Totes, "if that trollop were going to keep them waiting much longer in this Godforsaken spot"?
(a) Cornudet.
(b) The Count.
(c) Madame Carre-Lamadon.
(d) Loiseau.

5. At the beginning of the story, the vanquished in the city of Rouen realize they had to be civil to whom?
(a) Their allies.
(b) Their conquerors.
(c) Their peers.
(d) Their family.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Boule de Suif," why could no one mention Loiseau's name without adding that he was an "extraordinary man"?

2. As they begin to share the provisions Boule de Suif offers, what do they talk about?

3. What do the men search for in the farmhouses beside the road that they cannot find in "Boule de Suif"?

4. Whose "vulgar temperament broke bounds" after Monsieur Follenvie returned from the Prussian officer's room on the third day in Totes?

5. As Cornudet settles beside the kitchen fireplace, what does he do as he "sucked the foam from his mustache" the first day in Totes?

(see the answer key)

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