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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, The Flaubert Bestiary.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Geoffrey hope will result from his discussion with Ed?
(a) Light will be shed on Flaubert's relationship with his niece.
(b) Light will be shed on how the Flaubert museums can be updated.
(c) Light will be shed on Flaubert's state of mind when he wrote Madame Bovary.
(d) Light will be shed on Flaubert's behavior in London.

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

3. What happened to the letters?
(a) Ed burned them.
(b) Ed buried them.
(c) Ed sealed them up and left them in an undisclosed location.
(d) Ed ripped them up and dropped them into the sea.

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

5. How did Flaubert first come to know Juliet Herbert?
(a) She was his sister-in-law.
(b) She was governess to Flaubert's niece.
(c) He met her at church.
(d) She was his mother's maid.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Geoffrey ask Ed about the content of the letters?

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

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

4. What was the unusual characteristic of the sheep whose owner Flaubert took to dinner?

5. Geoffrey compares biographies to what objects?

(see the answer key)

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