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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. Geoffrey maintains that mistakes like the professor pointed out in his speech are external mistakes, but Geoffrey is more concerned with internal mistakes which he considers to be what?
(a) Sloppy.
(b) Something designed to keep the reader alert.
(c) Untrue.
(d) Philosophically unsound.

2. What happened to the man who owned the parrot in the newspaper article?
(a) He died trying to save the parrot.
(b) He believed he had turned into a parrot.
(c) He bought an aviary.
(d) He wrote several stories about the parrot.

3. What particular criticism does Starkie have of Flaubert's characterization of Madame Bovary?
(a) She says that her temperament does not suit her actions.
(b) She says that he gives her differing eye colors in different chapters.
(c) She says that there is no clear physical descriptiion in the book.
(d) He says that her eyes saw all when it was obvious she was often unaware.

4. What mistake did Enid Starkie make when she published her biography of Flaubert?
(a) She said that Flaubert never had a mistress.
(b) She used a portrait on her first volume about Flaubert that wasn't him.
(c) She left out the entire story of "Un couer simple" from her manuscript.
(d) She said that Flaubert's mother forbid him to become a writer.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Geoffrey compares biographies to what objects?

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

5. Why does Geoffrey say that we cannot know everything about the past?

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