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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Snap!.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Flaubert's ideas in the third section of the chronology are expressed through which literary device?
(a) Metaphors.
(b) Literary allusion.
(c) Hyperbole.
(d) Personification.

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

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

4. For what reason was Flaubert confined to the family home as a young man?
(a) Because of a broken leg.
(b) Because of a scandal involving a maid.
(c) Because of an epileptic attack.
(d) Because of the war.

5. Which of the following animals does Flaubert not include in his letter to Bouilet?
(a) A monkey.
(b) An ostrich.
(c) A donkey.
(d) A lion.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Flaubert feel about the organization of his ideas?

2. 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?

3. For what reason does Geoffrey say that he does not like coincidences?

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

5. What did the greyhound and Flaubert have in common?

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