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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, Emma Bovary's Eyes.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. In what way is Felicite completely different from Flaubert?
(a) She is lonely.
(b) She is inarticulate.
(c) She takes lovers.
(d) She writes in a diary.

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

4. In the newspaper article Flaubert saved, what was the parrot trained to say?
(a) Quotes from Shakespeare.
(b) The days of the week.
(c) Curses.
(d) The name of its owner's lost love.

5. What did Ed originally intend to do with the letters?
(a) Give them to Geoffrey.
(b) Keep them for his collection.
(c) Donate them to the Flaubert museum.
(d) Sell them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Geoffrey see at the second Flaubert museum?

2. The chronology is divided into three sections, the first of which deals with which of the following?

3. After her parrot dies, what does Felicite do?

4. What objects does Geoffrey Braithwaite, the narrator of "Flaubert's Parrot," describe in the beginning of the book?

5. What happened to the letters?

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