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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. What was the unusual characteristic of the sheep whose owner Flaubert took to dinner?
(a) It was blind.
(b) It had five legs.
(c) It bleated with a melody-like sound.
(d) It had a human-like face.

2. At the Hotel-Dieu, the museum is partly about Flaubert and partly about what?
(a) The French Revolution.
(b) Natural history.
(c) Medical history.
(d) World literature.

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

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

5. How does the inscription explain the presence of the stuffed green parrot?
(a) It says the parrot was given to Flaubert's mother when he died.
(b) It says the parrot was a gift from Flaubert's lover.
(c) It says the parrot was Flaubert's childhood pet.
(d) It says the parrot once sat on Flaubert's desk.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Geoffrey think authors legitimize coincidences?

2. How did Flaubert first come to know Juliet Herbert?

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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