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Madame Bovary
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Madame Bovary
by:
Gustave Flaubert
Summary
Plot Overview
Summary & Analysis
Part One, Chapters I–III
Part One, Chapters IV–VI
Part One, Chapters VII–IX
Part Two, Chapters I–III
Part Two, Chapters IV–VI
Part Two, Chapters VII–IX
Part Two, Chapters X–XII
Part Two, Chapters XIII–XV
Part Three, Chapters I–III
Part Three, Chapters IV–VI
Part Three, Chapters VII–VIII
Part Three, Chapters IV–XI
Characters
Character List
Emma Bovary
Charles Bovary
Monsieur Homais
Main Ideas
Themes
Motifs
Symbols
Key Facts
Quotes
Important Quotations Explained
Further Study
Context
Full Book Quiz
Section Quizzes
Context
Plot Overview
Character List
Analysis of Major Characters
Themes, Motifs & Symbols
Part One, Chapters 1–3
Part One, Chapters 4–6
Part One, Chapters 7–9
Part Two, Chapters 1–3
Part Two, Chapters 4–6
Part Two, Chapters 7–9
Part Two, Chapters 10–12
Part Two, Chapters 13–15
Part Three, Chapters 1–3
Part Three, Chapters 4–6
Part Three, Chapters 7–8
Part Three, Chapters 4–11
Study Questions
Suggestions for Further Reading
Writing Help
How to Write Literary Analysis
Suggested Essay Topics
How to Cite This SparkNote
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Full Book Quiz
1.
What is Charles Bovary’s first wife’s name?
Heloise
Félicité
Emma
Léocadie
2
. How does Emma Bovary kill herself?
She throws herself under an oncoming train
She eats arsenic
She throws herself out the attic window
Her lovers bore her to death
3
. How does Charles get to know Emma’s father?
In medical school
At an agricultural fair
Charles’s first wife is close friends with Emma’s father
Charles repairs Emma’s father’s broken leg
4
. How does Emma’s father signal to Charles that Emma has accepted his proposal?
By letter
By hanging a white sheet from the gatepost
By slamming a shutter against the wall
By sending him a turkey
5
. How does Rodolphe conceal the letter in which he breaks up with Emma?
Under the saddle of his horse
In a basket of apricots
In his underwear
In a bouquet of white lilies
6
. When the Marquis d’Andervilliers’s ballroom becomes too hot, how do the servants cool it down?
By fanning the guests with peacock feathers
By spraying the guests with water
By breaking the windows
By moving the party outside
7
. What item does the Viscount drop that Emma saves to fantasize about?
His cigar case
His riding crop
His opium pipe
His dancing card
8
. What is Monsieur Binet’s hobby?
Going to the opera
Making napkin rings
Reading romance novels
Amateur medicine
9
. In what way is Hippolyte crippled before Charles tries to operate on him and ends up having to perform an amputation?
He is clubfooted
He has syphillus
He is blind
He has gout
10
. Where was Emma educated?
In the village school at Tostes
In Paris
In a convent in Rouen
At home
11
. Where do Leon and Emma make love for the first time?
On the garden seat at the Bovarys’ house
In Leon’s office
In a carriage
In a hotel room in Rouen
12
. Where do Emma and Rodolphe make love for the first time?
On Charles’s desk
In Rodolphe’s mansion
In the woods
In a boat
13
. Where does Rodolphe declare his love for Emma?
At an agricultural fair
At the Marquis d’Andervilliers’s ball
At the opera
Through her window
14
. Who is Catherine Leroux?
Emma’s first servant, whom she dismisses
An old woman who is rewarded for her loyal service on a farm
The wet nurse who looks after Emma’s daughter
Leon’s other lover, whom he later marries
15
. What eventually happens to Emma’s daughter?
She goes to work in a cotton mill
She is sold into prostitution by Lheureux
She marries well and abandons her father
She seeks revenge on Rodolphe
16
. What important document does Emma obtain from her husband?
His will
His dead wife’s will
A writ of habeas corpus
A power of attorney
17
. What lie does Emma tell in order to go visit Leon each week in Rouen?
She has a job there selling flowers
She needs to go to confession
She is taking piano lessons
She is going to visit her father
18
. Where does Charles find the letter from Rodolphe that broke off the affair with Emma?
In the attic
In her desk
Hidden under a statue in the garden
In the kitchen behind the stove
19
. When Charles and Emma get married, where do they go for their honeymoon?
Switzerland
Scotland
Tostes
Rouen
20
. To what other use does the gravedigger, Lestiboudois, put his graveyard?
He gives tours of the ancient graves
He brings his mistresses there
He holds séances there
He grows potatoes there
21
. Why can’t Emma marry Charles immediately after he proposes?
He is still in mourning for his first wife
He is still married to his first wife
He still hasn’t completed medical school
Her father forbids it
22
. Apart from the effect it has on her health, what is the consequence of Emma’s illness after Rodolphe leaves her?
It causes Rodolphe to change his mind and come back to her
It makes Charles realize that she is having an affair
It drives the Bovarys deeper into debt
It kills her unborn child
23
. How many extramarital affairs does Emma have?
None
One
Two
Four
24
. What impressive credential does the old man at the Marquis d’Andervilliers’s ball have?
He personally baked all the cakes for the party
He once slept with Marie Antoinette
He fathered seventeen children
He owns an entire province
25
. Where does Madame Bovary open?
On the farm where Emma grew up
In Charles’s grade-school classroom
In Flaubert’s living room
At the Bovarys’ dinner table
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