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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, The Flaubert Apocrypha.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Du Camp and Flaubert do the night before climbing the Great Pyramid?
(a) They sleep beside it.
(b) They get drunk.
(c) They take photographs.
(d) They research its history.

2. Geoffrey said that Flaubert learned that life is not a choice between murdering your way to throne or what?
(a) Marrying your way to the throne.
(b) Murdering your servant.
(c) Slopping a pig.
(d) Farming the land.

3. The dates in the second list of the chronology include those associated with what?
(a) Flaubert's works.
(b) Flaubert's childhood.
(c) The deaths and failures in Flaubert's life.
(d) The influence of politics on Flaubert's life.

4. Geoffrey thinks that if Flaubert had not been a bear he might have been what other animal?
(a) An elephant.
(b) A tiger.
(c) A camel.
(d) A whale.

5. Flaubert's ideas in the third section of the chronology are expressed through which literary device?
(a) Literary allusion.
(b) Metaphors.
(c) Personification.
(d) Hyperbole.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who actually carried out the trick that resulted in Flaubert's find at the top of the Great Pyramid?

2. What did Flaubert's niece ask for after Flaubert's death?

3. In what setting does Geoffrey think the most famous nineteenth century fictional depiction of a seduction occurs?

4. What does Geoffrey say we need to respect about Flaubert even if we think him naive or unsuccessful?

5. In the newspaper article Flaubert saved, what was the parrot trained to say?

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