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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do Emma and Rodolphe begin communicating in the early days of their affair?
(a) By code unknowingly transmitted by Justin.
(b) By exchanging letters.
(c) By talking through her open bedroom window.
(d) By paintings they draw for each other.

2. What causes Emma to return to Bertaux from the convent?
(a) She lost her faith.
(b) Her mother died.
(c) Her father died.
(d) She fell in love.

3. How does Homais want Charles to help him?
(a) By overseeing his advice to clients.
(b) By helping him write a speech for a prestigious scientific society.
(c) By taking over the pharmacy once he retires.
(d) By helping him study to become a doctor.

4. What is the name of the town clerk who boards with the Homais family and is incredibly bored with the provincial life in Yonville?
(a) Monsieur Binet.
(b) Léon Dupuis.
(c) The previous doctor.
(d) Abbé Bournisien.

5. Charles and Emma's relationship grows as they are alone one day discussing what?
(a) Farming.
(b) Popular fashions and town gossip.
(c) Banking.
(d) Childhood memories and times at school.

6. What is one of Emma's favorite pastimes?
(a) Gardening.
(b) Reading romance novels.
(c) Carving figurines.
(d) Writing letters.

7. Why doesn't Binet believe her?
(a) Because he has seen her visiting Rodolphe before.
(b) Because he knows that Emma doesn't have a dog.
(c) Because he knows that Rodolphe is not home.
(d) Because he knows that Berthe has been removed from the wet nurse.

8. What language does Emma decide she should learn to make herself feel better?
(a) Spanish.
(b) German.
(c) Italian.
(d) Russian.

9. What city does Emma dream of visiting by tracing maps of it?
(a) Paris.
(b) Rome.
(c) New York.
(d) London.

10. Where is the center of activity in Yonville?
(a) The local church.
(b) Homais' Pharmacy.
(c) The Bovary home.
(d) The Hotel Lion d'Or.

11. After running into Binet, what do Emma and Rodolphe decide to do?
(a) Tell Charles about the affair.
(b) Bribe Binet to not say anything.
(c) Find a new place to clandestinely meet.
(d) Run off to Paris.

12. Why did Charles' father, Charles Denis Bartholomé Bovary, get removed from his post as an Army surgeon?
(a) He was involved in a scandal involving prescriptions.
(b) He was chronically absent from work.
(c) He was laundering money to pay gambling debts.
(d) He had an affair with his superior's wife.

13. Who does Emma meet on her way to visit the wet nurse?
(a) Monsieur Homais.
(b) Charles' father.
(c) Léon.
(d) Charles.

14. What do the Bovarys discover about their new home?
(a) It is infested with mice.
(b) It is well-designed but in disarray.
(c) It is a mere cottage and not up to Emma's standards.
(d) It still has boarders living in it.

15. What is Monsieur Homais' nephew Justin's future career?
(a) He plans on being a pharmacist like his uncle.
(b) He wants to become a doctor.
(c) He wants to join the military.
(d) He wants to become a priest.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Charles have come to visit Emma to help her out of her depression?

2. How does Rodolphe try to get on Charles' good side?

3. As Emma and Léon get to know each other, what do they originally discuss?

4. Why is Boulanger's attention in such high demand at the fair?

5. Why is Abbé Bournisien distracted when Emma comes to see him?

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