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

2. How long did it take Flaubert to write a novel?
(a) A few months.
(b) One year.
(c) Five to seven years.
(d) Ten years.

3. As a student, what subject did Flaubert fail at?
(a) Architecture.
(b) Medicine.
(c) Economics.
(d) Law.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the owner of the dog that Flaubert took for walks and kissed?

2. What French work did Flaubert translate into English?

3. The dates in the second list of the chronology include those associated with what?

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

5. How does Geoffrey think authors legitimize coincidences?

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