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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. If Geoffrey had his way, which of the following subjects would he not ban novel writers from using?
(a) Novels about people reverting back to nature.
(b) Novels about small forgotten wars.
(c) Novels about love affairs.
(d) Novels set in Oxford or Cambridge.

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

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

4. What was the attitude toward Flaubert of the Collier sisters who Flaubert met when he spent his summers in Trouville?
(a) They were infatuated with him,
(b) They ignored him and hoped he would leave.
(c) They laughed at him.
(d) Flaubert infuriated them.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Loulou?

2. What did Flaubert confess to Louise?

3. When Gertrude's son-in-law, the explorer Henry Morton Stanley, was forced to get rid of his belongings during a trip, what book did he toss?

4. According to Geoffrey, what is the sweetest moment of writing?

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

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