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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 tantalizes Geoffrey about Flaubert's ideas?
(a) How many more books of Flaubert's he has yet to read.
(b) How much Flaubert sounds like he belongs in the twentieth century.
(c) How much Flaubert's ideas are like his own.
(d) All of the unwritten works.

2. Who should the author of a book be like, according to a quote Geoffrey has read?
(a) God.
(b) A teacher.
(c) A parent.
(d) A close friend.

3. Who was Loulou?
(a) Juliet's parrot.
(b) Felicite's parrot.
(c) Elisa Schlessinger's parrot.
(d) Caroline's parrot.

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

5. What does Flaubert find when he gets to the top of the Great Pyramid?
(a) A letter addressed to him.
(b) A business card.
(c) A stuffed parrot.
(d) A mirror.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to the man who owned the parrot in the newspaper article?

2. Flaubert's ideas in the third section of the chronology are expressed through which literary device?

3. From what diseases did Flaubert suffer?

4. Flaubert refers to himself as a bear and his sister as what animal?

5. Why does Geoffrey think that critics want to control literature?

(see the answer key)

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