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

2. What do Du Camp and Flaubert do the night before climbing the Great Pyramid?
(a) They research its history.
(b) They sleep beside it.
(c) They get drunk.
(d) They take photographs.

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

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

5. What objects does Geoffrey Braithwaite, the narrator of "Flaubert's Parrot," describe in the beginning of the book?
(a) Flags.
(b) Statues.
(c) Columns.
(d) Paintings.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. With what writer does the biographer Enid Starkie compare Flaubert?

3. Who was Loulou?

4. Although he had once thought of writing a book, what is Geoffrey's actual occupation?

5. Geoffrey thinks that if Flaubert had not been a bear he might have been what other animal?

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