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Pretest: Genre and Context in Fiction
Suomi Test
Select the correct text in the passage,
Which lines in this excerpt from Guy de Maupassants short story "Boule de Suit suggest that the resistance activities of the civilians were m
courageous than those of the armed soldiers
Even the town itself resurned by degrees its ordinary aspect. The French seldom walked abroad, but the streets swarmed with Prussian sold
Moreover, the officers of the Blue Hussars, who arrogantly dragged their instruments of death along the pavements, seemed to hold the sin
townsmen in but little more contempt than did the French cavalry officers who had drunk at the same cases the year before...
The conquerors exacted money, much money. The inhabitants paid what was asked, they were nch. But, the weather a Norman tradesma
becomes, the more he suffers at having to part with anything that belongs to him, at having to see any portion of his substance pass intot
hands of another.
Nevertheless, within six or seven miles of the town, along the course of the river as it flows onward to Croisset. Dieppedalle and Blessart,
men and fishermen often hauled to the surface of the water the body of a German, bloated in his uniform, killed by a blow from kn fe oro
his head crushed by a stone, or perchance pushed from some bridge into the stream below.
The mud of the river-bed swallowed up these obscure acts of vengeance-savage, yet leg timate these unrecorded deeds of bravery, the
silent attacks fraught with greater danger than battles fought in broad day, and surrounded, moreover, with no halo of romance For hat
the foreigner ever arms a few intrepid souls, ready to die for an idea.