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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, Cross Channel.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. If Geoffrey had his way, which of the following subjects would he not ban novel writers from using?
(a) Novels about people reverting back to nature.
(b) Novels about small forgotten wars.
(c) Novels set in Oxford or Cambridge.
(d) Novels about love affairs.

2. Who is Humbert?
(a) The Russian guide who took Flaubert to the top of the Great Pyramid.
(b) The translator who travels with Flaubert and Du Camp.
(c) The lawyer hired by Flaubert in Rouen.
(d) The name of a Nabokov character who seduced young girls.

3. In the story, "Un coeur simple," what is Felicite's occupation?
(a) Teacher.
(b) Seamstress.
(c) Prostitute.
(d) Servant woman.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What did Geoffrey do to ascertain the color of Madame Bovary's eyes?

4. How does Flaubert feel about the organization of his ideas?

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

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