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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Snap!.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Geoffrey learn about Ed when he meets him at the restaurant?
(a) Ed has married.
(b) Ed has been fired.
(c) Ed wants to donate materials to the Flaubert museums.
(d) Ed has lost the book he hoped to exchange with Geoffrey.

2. What was the unusual characteristic of the sheep whose owner Flaubert took to dinner?
(a) It had five legs.
(b) It was blind.
(c) It had a human-like face.
(d) It bleated with a melody-like sound.

3. The chronology is divided into three sections, the first of which deals with which of the following?
(a) Flaubert's childhood.
(b) Flaubert's works.
(c) Critical response to Flaubert's work.
(d) Details of Flaubert's life and successes.

4. Which of the following animals does Flaubert not include in his letter to Bouilet?
(a) A donkey.
(b) A monkey.
(c) An ostrich.
(d) A lion.

5. Flaubert was born in what year?
(a) 1875.
(b) 1800.
(c) 1825.
(d) 1850.

Short Answer Questions

1. What objects does Geoffrey Braithwaite, the narrator of "Flaubert's Parrot," describe in the beginning of the book?

2. What does Geoffrey see at the second Flaubert museum?

3. What did the greyhound and Flaubert have in common?

4. What happened after the dragoman lost his Scottish terrier?

5. What is the parrot's name?

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