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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the morning of their first day in Totes, what do the male passengers see the Prussian soldiers doing in the town square while looking for the coach driver?
(a) Practicing drills for the next battle.
(b) Burying the dead and attending to the wounded.
(c) Helping the women with household chores.
(d) Stockpiling weapons and provisions.

2. When the passengers return from their walk on the second day in Totes, why do the exchange sharp words over the "merest trifles"?
(a) Because they are restless.
(b) Because they are ill.
(c) Because they are exhausted.
(d) Because they are famished.

3. What year does the story "Boule de Suif" take place?
(a) 1771.
(b) 1871.
(c) 1971.
(d) 1671.

4. What object does Loiseau take out in the coach on their departure from Totes, that is "thick with the grease of five years' contact with half-wiped tables"?
(a) A box of cigars.
(b) A pack of cards.
(c) A flash of liquor.
(d) A bound Bible.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. At three o'clock, what does Boule de Suif remove from an enormous dish in the story?

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

3. What is NOT one of the reasons the coach passengers discuss in the kitchen after the meeting with the Prussian officer the first day in Totes?

4. When the coach starts on its departure from Totes, what is Boule de Suif's attitude toward her neighbors?

5. What do boat-men and fishermen often haul to the surface in "Boule de Suif"?

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