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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. Why does Geoffrey say that we cannot know everything about the past?
(a) Because it would be impossible to take in everything.
(b) Because it would confuse us.
(c) Because much of history has never been written down.
(d) Because historians have conflicting ideas about the past.
2. What tantalizes Geoffrey about Flaubert's ideas?
(a) How much Flaubert sounds like he belongs in the twentieth century.
(b) How much Flaubert's ideas are like his own.
(c) All of the unwritten works.
(d) How many more books of Flaubert's he has yet to read.
3. When they were lowering Caroline's coffin into the ground, what happened?
(a) It got stuck.
(b) The church bells began to peal.
(c) Flaubert cried out.
(d) The pall bearers dropped it.
4. Why does Geoffrey think that critics want to control literature?
(a) So they can regulate the past.
(b) So they can impress their readers.
(c) So they can keep the public from reading inappropriate material.
(d) So they can have power over others.
5. What was the attitude toward Flaubert of the Collier sisters who Flaubert met when he spent his summers in Trouville?
(a) Flaubert infuriated them.
(b) They were infatuated with him,
(c) They ignored him and hoped he would leave.
(d) They laughed at him.
Short Answer Questions
1. Flaubert's ideas in the third section of the chronology are expressed through which literary device?
2. According to Geoffrey, what is included in Flaubert's dictionary along with a catalog of cliches and odd definitions?
3. Geoffrey said that Flaubert learned that life is not a choice between murdering your way to throne or what?
4. In the newspaper article Flaubert saved, what was the parrot trained to say?
5. What does Geoffrey say we need to respect about Flaubert even if we think him naive or unsuccessful?
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