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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13, Pure Story.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who did Cervantes refer to as the source of his famous hero?
(a) Felicite.
(b) Candide.
(c) Gustave Flaubert.
(d) Madame Bovary.

2. What does Geoffrey ask Ed about the content of the letters?
(a) He asked if Julie wrote about her children.
(b) He asked if Flaubert used the letters as the basis for any of his stories.
(c) He asks if Flaubert discussed death in his letters.
(d) He asks if the letters proved Flaubert and Julie Herbert had an affair.

3. The third list in the chronology consists of what?
(a) Flaubert's love affairs.
(b) Flaubert's death.
(c) Flaubert's correspondence.
(d) Flaubert's thoughts through the years.

4. Who is Humbert?
(a) The lawyer hired by Flaubert in Rouen.
(b) The translator who travels with Flaubert and Du Camp.
(c) The Russian guide who took Flaubert to the top of the Great Pyramid.
(d) The name of a Nabokov character who seduced young girls.

5. Why was Louise a risk in Flaubert's life?
(a) Because she meant the risk of partnership.
(b) Because she was married.
(c) Because of the possibility of disease.
(d) Because Flaubert spent so much money on her.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Flaubert want Louise to write like he wrote?

2. What had Ed lied about to the woman named Kent who gave him the letters?

3. Who should the author of a book be like, according to a quote Geoffrey has read?

4. How many letters did Ed get from the woman named Kent?

5. In the story, "Un coeur simple," what is Felicite's occupation?

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