Flaubert's Novel,Madame Bovary Is About a

question 63

Multiple Choice

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.

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Loss on Disposal

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Plant Asset

A long-term tangible asset used in the operation of a business that is not intended for sale.

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