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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

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 a insolent nod and look of outraged virtue.
(b) With an abrupt embrace and look of restrained gallantry.
(c) With a warm smile and look of excessive gratitude.
(d) With a cool handshake and look of graceful humility.

2. What is the description given of the person who chuckles at Boule de Suif's crying in the coach from Totes?
(a) Unintelligent.
(b) Bored.
(c) Triumphant.
(d) Hostile.

3. What do the nuns do in the coach on their departure from Totes?
(a) Pray.
(b) Read.
(c) Eat.
(d) Sleep.

4. What efforts at self-control does Boule de Suif attempt to do in the coach on their trip from Totes?
(a) Swallow her sobs; pull on a blanket.
(b) Draw herself up; unclasp her hands.
(c) Swallow her sobs; close her eyes.
(d) Draw herself up; swallow her sobs.

5. On the third day the passengers are in Totes, why are the ladies pleasant to Boule de Suif until lunch time?
(a) To decrease her confidence and make her amenable to their advice.
(b) To increase her confidence and make her amenable to their advice.
(c) To decrease her confidence and make her suspect their advice.
(d) To increase her confidence and make her suspect their advice.

6. Who shrugs in response to being notified about Boule de Suif crying in the coach from Totes?
(a) Loiseau.
(b) Cornudet.
(c) Comte de Breville.
(d) Comtess de Breville.

7. What is the church bell summoning on the third morning in Totes?
(a) A baptism.
(b) A funeral.
(c) A mass.
(d) A wedding.

8. Who appears suddenly at the end of the street on their walk during the second day in Totes?
(a) The Old Nun.
(b) The innkeeper.
(c) Cornudet.
(d) The Prussian officer.

9. What is the weather like on their walk in the village neighborhood the second day in Totes?
(a) Cold.
(b) Warm.
(c) Mild.
(d) Hot.

10. During their trip from Totes, what does Cornudet remove from his loose overcoat in the coach?
(a) Wine and bread.
(b) Hard-boiled eggs and fruit.
(c) Hard-boiled eggs and bread.
(d) Fruit and bread.

11. On the third day in Totes, which person suggests that the should persuade Boule de Suif to sleep with the Prussian?
(a) Cornudet.
(b) Monsieur Follenvie.
(c) Loiseau.
(d) The Count.

12. On their walk the second day in Totes, why does the Count tell Loiseau that "we should be pursued at once, overtaken in ten minutes, and brought back as prisoners at the mercy of the soldiery"?
(a) Because Loiseau suggests they steal the carriage.
(b) Because Loiseau suggests they abandon Boule de Suif.
(c) Because Loiseau suggests they escape on foot.
(d) Because Loiseau suggests they kill the Prussian.

13. On their walk the second day in Totes, what looks "so mournful and depressing" to the passengers that they retraced their steps?
(a) The empty storefronts.
(b) The tattered houses.
(c) The open country.
(d) The winding roads.

14. Who breaks the "painful silence" in the coach as they began on their departure from Totes?
(a) Madame Carre-Lamadon.
(b) The Old Nun.
(c) Monsieur Carre-Lamadon.
(d) Comtess de Breville.

15. Why does Madame Loiseau state that the officer has "behaved very well" on the third day in Totes?
(a) Because he could have chosen a poor peasant woman instead of Boule de Suif.
(b) Because he didn't choose any of the women.
(c) Because he chose the married women over Boule de Suif.
(d) Because he could have chosen one of the married women instead of Boule de Suif.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What is the Prussian officer's response to their question about detention on the third day in Totes?

3. In the afternoon of the third day in Totes, what tone does the Count adopt on his walk with Boule de Suif to convince her to surrender to the Prussian?

4. Who is talking to Monsieur Carre-Lamadon as the ladies discuss Madame d'Etrelles in the coach from Totes?

5. During their trip from Totes, why does Boule de Suif want to open her lips "to shriek the truth at them, to overwhelm them with a volley of insults"?

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