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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Flaubert describe Emma's three days with Léon in Rouen?
(a) Like a true honeymoon.
(b) Like a romance from Sir Walter Scott.
(c) Tedious.
(d) A nightmare.

3. Who runs the house while Emma is ill?
(a) Monsieur Homais.
(b) Charles' mother.
(c) Félicité.
(d) Charles.

4. Who is absent from Emma's funeral?
(a) Monsieur Binet.
(b) All answers are correct.
(c) Léon.
(d) Rodolphe.

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

6. Where do Emma and Léon decide to meet each other?
(a) At the cathedral.
(b) At Léon's apartment.
(c) At Léon's office.
(d) On a boat.

7. Who has Lhereux sold Emma's promissory notes to?
(a) Monsieur Binet.
(b) Monsieur Vincart.
(c) Rodolphe.
(d) Abbé Bournisien.

8. What event does Charles think will help Emma return to good spirits?
(a) Going to a party at Homais'.
(b) Seeing an opera at Rouen.
(c) Hosting a dinner party.
(d) Visiting her father.

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

10. To whom does the boatman allude having been on the boat recently?
(a) Abbé Bournisien.
(b) Rodolphe.
(c) Monsieur Lhereux.
(d) Charles.

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

12. What happens when Charles encounters Emma's supposed piano teacher, Mademoiselle Lempereur?
(a) She reveals to Charles Emma's affair.
(b) She is not familiar with Emma's name.
(c) She says that Emma is a gifted student.
(d) She asks for more money.

13. Why is Emma scrambling for money?
(a) She has to pay off Lhereux.
(b) She gave all of her spending money to charity.
(c) She paid Rodolphe to keep their affair a secret.
(d) She bought Berthe too many expensive toys.

14. After suggesting a method of gaining more money for Emma, what does Monsieur Lhereux try to sell her?
(a) New clothes for Berthe.
(b) New furniture for her living room.
(c) A new carpet.
(d) Fabric for a new mourning gown.

15. Why does Charles owe money to Monsieur Homais?
(a) To pay off a loan.
(b) To pay for the expenses incurred during Emma's illness.
(c) To pay him back for helping with Hippolyte.
(d) To pay for new clothes for Berthe.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Charles request as a memory of Emma?

3. Eventually, what happens to Hippolyte?

4. How does Emma try to recuperate from her illness after a talk with Abbé Bournisien?

5. Where do Emma and Léon meet when they are in the city?

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