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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Emma's emotion when she leaves Lhereux after finding out about the impending auction of her possessions?
(a) Vengeance.
(b) Ambivolence.
(c) Hope.
(d) Despair.

2. What is the title of the book that Justin is caught with?
(a) Medicines and Poisons.
(b) Ivanhoe.
(c) Political Revolutions.
(d) Conjugal Love.

3. What does Emma's father do when he arrives in Yonville?
(a) He demands to see Monsieur Lhereux.
(b) He immediately takes over the funeral arrangements.
(c) He gets into an argument with Charles.
(d) He faints.

4. What other instructions does Emma give to Léon about their correspondence?
(a) To make copies of them.
(b) To write them in red ink.
(c) To write them in code.
(d) To put his letters in double envelopes.

5. What annoys Emma about Charles during the performance?
(a) He falls asleep.
(b) He keeps talking to her.
(c) He sings along.
(d) He leaves without her.

6. When he visits Emma in Yonville, where does Léon first meet her?
(a) In the lane behind her garden.
(b) At the Homais home.
(c) In Monsieur Binet's room.
(d) In Charles' office.

7. Who does Emma decide to consult with about gaining power of attorney?
(a) Léon.
(b) Abbé Bournisien.
(c) Monsieur Homais.
(d) Monsieur Lhereux.

8. Who do Charles and Emma run into at the opera?
(a) Monsieur Homais.
(b) Monsieur Lhereux.
(c) Abbé Bournisien.
(d) Léon.

9. What does Emma want Charles to buy for Hippolyte?
(a) Two wooden legs.
(b) A grave marker.
(c) A cottage.
(d) A new horse.

10. What does Léon's employer suggest he do about Emma?
(a) Pay off her debts.
(b) Take her to Paris.
(c) Marry her.
(d) Break off the affair.

11. How does Emma explain her absence the night she doesn't return home?
(a) She says she missed her coach.
(b) She says she was playing in a recital.
(c) She says she fell asleep.
(d) She says she had taken ill.

12. What does Léon find on their boat ride that makes the boatman tell them about his previous customers?
(a) A champagne glass.
(b) A silk ribbon.
(c) A gold ring.
(d) A love poem.

13. What does Emma's father do after the funeral?
(a) Spends time with Berthe.
(b) Returns immediately to Bertaux.
(c) Stays at Yonville for a few days.
(d) Pays a visit to Lhereux.

14. Why do they leave the opera early?
(a) They need to catch their coach.
(b) They are tired.
(c) They have to meet friends for dinner.
(d) It is too warm.

15. How does Emma try to raise the money to pay off her debts?
(a) She asks for the remaining sum of Charles' squandered inheritance.
(b) By sending bills to Charles' patients.
(c) All answers are correct.
(d) By selling her things.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Emma preparing for a trip?

2. Why does Charles suggest Emma stay on in Rouen without him?

3. Besides his wife's illness, what other factor in Charles' life is causing him stress?

4. When Emma receives Rodolphe's letter breaking it off with her, what is her first thought to do?

5. What does Emma tell Justin she needs the arsenic for?

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