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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Boule de Suif arrives at the coach for their departure from Totes, how does Madame Carre-Lamadon respond to her greeting?
(a) With an abrupt embrace and look of restrained gallantry.
(b) With a cool handshake and look of graceful humility.
(c) With a warm smile and look of excessive gratitude.
(d) With a insolent nod and look of outraged virtue.

2. When the coach starts on its departure from Totes, what is Boule de Suif's attitude toward her neighbors?
(a) Grateful.
(b) Sympathetic.
(c) Disappointment.
(d) Indignant.

3. How do the nuns in "Boule de Suif" spend their time in the coach?
(a) Sleeping.
(b) Reading.
(c) Praying.
(d) Listening.

4. In the coach on their departure from Totes, who "sat still, lost in thought"?
(a) Loiseau.
(b) Boule de Suif.
(c) Cornudet.
(d) Comte de Breville.

5. Who sends the Prussian officer a card on which Monsieur Carre-Lamadon inscribes his name and titles?
(a) Boule de Suif.
(b) Loiseau.
(c) Madame Follenvie.
(d) Comte de Breville.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many passengers are traveling on a coach in "Boule de Suif"?

2. Who "remained apart from the rest, taking no share in the plot" of persuading Boule de Suif to sleep with the Prussian.

3. In the beginning of "Boule de Suif," the soldiers wore long, dirty________ and tattered _________.

4. What is the subject Monsieur Carre-Lamadon is discussing with his companion in the coach from Totes?

5. According to the narrator, as they discuss persuading Boule de Suif on the third day in Totes, every woman in the world is furnished with what?

(see the answer key)

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