Question

Which lines in this excerpt from Guy de Maupassant's short story "Boule de Suif" show that relations between most French and German people remained friendly despite the war?

A. At the end of a short time, once the first terror had subsided, calm was again restored.

B. In many houses the Prussian officer ate at the same table with the family.

C. By the exercise of tact the number of men quartered in one's house might be reduced; and why should one provoke the hostility of a person on whom one's whole welfare depended?

D. And foolhardiness is no longer a failing of the citizens of Rouen as it was in the days when their city earned renown by its heroic defenses.

E. Out of doors, therefore, citizen and soldier did not know each other; but in the house both chatted freely, and each evening the German remained a little longer warming himself at the hospitable hearth.

Answer 1

B. In many houses the Prussian officer ate at the same table with the family.

E. Out of doors, therefore, citizen and soldier did not know each other; but in the house both chatted freely, and each evening the German remained a little longer warming himself at the hospitable hearth.

The above two lines from "Guy de Maupassant's short story "Boule de Suif" shows that the relation between the French and German people remained friendly despite the war.