Flaubert's novel, Madame Bovary is about a
a. middle class wife who is rejected by her husband for taking out a loan without his permission.
b. respectable provincial wife who, bored with her life and her husband, commits adultery and dies of poisoning.
c. young factory worker who is forced into a life of prostitution.
d. governess who falls in love with her noble employer but is treated as a leper by his family and peers.
e. bourgeois wife who out of a sense of duty never reveals to her husband that she never loved him.
b
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Which of these describes the military operations of the Crimean War?
A. The British and French troops were superior to those of the Ottomans and Russians. B. The Russian troops were superior to all other forces. C. The Ottoman troops were superior to all other forces. D. All of the troops were inept, ill-equipped, and poorly commanded.
What was the end result of increased contact among Europeans, Muslims, and Byzantines during the second half of the Middle Ages?
A) These three groups of people became more and more alienated from each other. B) Global trade and exchange of learning increased among all three. C) The three cultures better understood how many things they held in common. D) Western Europe suffered a steep decline in power and stability. E) Europe became closely allied with the Byzantine Empire in the face of Muslim threats.
How does this mural from the eighteenth-century home of Captain Archibald Macpheadris represent an artistic style that is more European than American Indian?
A) The Indian chiefs are posing with their hands on their hips, a style common to European aristocrats. B) Weapons typical in European warfare like a tomahawk are featured in the mural. C) Lighter European skin tones rather than darker American Indian skin tones are used to depict the Indian chiefs. D) The Indian chiefs are in powdered wigs that were commonly worn by wealthy Europeans.