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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Du Camp and Flaubert do the night before climbing the Great Pyramid?
(a) They take photographs.
(b) They research its history.
(c) They get drunk.
(d) They sleep beside it.

2. What objects does Geoffrey Braithwaite, the narrator of "Flaubert's Parrot," describe in the beginning of the book?
(a) Paintings.
(b) Statues.
(c) Flags.
(d) Columns.

3. What is the parrot's name?
(a) Mimi.
(b) Polly.
(c) Gustave.
(d) Loulou.

4. Although he had once thought of writing a book, what is Geoffrey's actual occupation?
(a) Lawyer.
(b) Doctor.
(c) Journalist.
(d) Architect.

5. After her parrot dies, what does Felicite do?
(a) She buries him and buys a headstone.
(b) She buys another parrot.
(c) She has him stuffed and prays to him.
(d) She has his photograph taken.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom did Flaubert have his most celebrated affair?

2. How does Geoffrey think authors legitimize coincidences?

3. How does the inscription explain the presence of the stuffed green parrot?

4. What was the attitude toward Flaubert of the Collier sisters who Flaubert met when he spent his summers in Trouville?

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

(see the answer key)

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