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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. What was the attitude toward Flaubert of the Collier sisters who Flaubert met when he spent his summers in Trouville?
(a) They ignored him and hoped he would leave.
(b) They were infatuated with him,
(c) Flaubert infuriated them.
(d) They laughed at him.

2. As a student, what subject did Flaubert fail at?
(a) Architecture.
(b) Economics.
(c) Medicine.
(d) Law.

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

4. The third list in the chronology consists of what?
(a) Flaubert's love affairs.
(b) Flaubert's correspondence.
(c) Flaubert's thoughts through the years.
(d) Flaubert's death.

5. Who actually carried out the trick that resulted in Flaubert's find at the top of the Great Pyramid?
(a) The translator.
(b) Du Camp.
(c) Nabakov.
(d) Flaubert.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Flaubert's niece ask for after Flaubert's death?

2. After Flaubert published "Madame Bovary," what did Gertrude Collier Tenant publish?

3. What mistake did the professor from Cambridge point out in a Tennyson work?

4. Who does Flaubert feel he will be tied to until one of them dies?

5. In the newspaper article Flaubert saved, what was the parrot trained to say?

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