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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 French work did Flaubert translate into English?
(a) The Three Musketeers.
(b) Candide.
(c) Les Miserables.
(d) Rousseau's essays.

2. What is Geoffrey's marital status?
(a) He is single.
(b) He is a widower.
(c) He is married.
(d) He is divorced.

3. What does Geoffrey say mourning is full of?
(a) Time.
(b) Memories.
(c) Weeping.
(d) Visitors.

4. According to Du Camp, on whom was Madame Bovary modeled?
(a) Flaubert's cousin.
(b) Flaubert's first mistress.
(c) The second wife of a medical officer.
(d) The village seamstress of Rouen.

5. Geoffrey says that you cannot change humanity, you can only what?
(a) Know it.
(b) Participate in it.
(c) Pray for it.
(d) Decry it.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Geoffrey, what did Flaubert think about democracy?

2. Who is defined as Flaubert's social alter ego?

3. As a student, what subject did Flaubert fail at?

4. What does Geoffrey do on his last day in Rouen?

5. What mistake in "The Lord of the Flies" does the professor from Cambridge talk about?

(see the answer key)

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