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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13, Pure Story.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word does Geoffrey say that people are no longer allowed to use for describing lunacy?
(a) Idiot.
(b) Crazy.
(c) Freak.
(d) Mad.

2. What had Ed lied about to the woman named Kent who gave him the letters?
(a) His identity.
(b) The worth of the letters.
(c) His occupation.
(d) The authenticity of the letters.

3. With what writer does the biographer Enid Starkie compare Flaubert?
(a) Moliere.
(b) Rousseau.
(c) Hugo.
(d) Balzac.

4. What does Geoffrey ask about disciples and their masters?
(a) Is the great writer responsible for his disciples?
(b) Do all disciples receive equal treatment from a master?
(c) Should a disciple acknowledge his debt to his master?
(d) Does a master also learn from his disciples?

5. What mistake in "The Lord of the Flies" does the professor from Cambridge talk about?
(a) Piggy's glasses are for shortsightedness and could not have lit the fire.
(b) No one thought of fishing, yet the boys ate fish.
(c) Ralph dreams of a place he has never been and calls it home.
(d) The boys come to the island on an obsolete aircraft.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does Geoffrey compare a work of art?

2. How many times are Madame Bovary's eyes actually mentioned in the novel?

3. After Flaubert published "Madame Bovary," what did Gertrude Collier Tenant publish?

4. How did Ellen's life change when she had children?

5. If Geoffrey had his way, which of the following subjects would he not ban novel writers from using?

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