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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. For what reason was Flaubert confined to the family home as a young man?
(a) Because of an epileptic attack.
(b) Because of a broken leg.
(c) Because of the war.
(d) Because of a scandal involving a maid.

2. Why does Geoffrey say that we cannot know everything about the past?
(a) Because it would be impossible to take in everything.
(b) Because historians have conflicting ideas about the past.
(c) Because much of history has never been written down.
(d) Because it would confuse us.

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 wrote several stories about the parrot.
(c) He died trying to save the parrot.
(d) He bought an aviary.

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

5. What mistake did the professor from Cambridge point out in a Tennyson work?
(a) The name of the colonel who led the troops into battle.
(b) The number of men riding into battle.
(c) The year of the battle.
(d) The outcome of the battle.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The third list in the chronology consists of what?

3. Which of the following animals does Flaubert not include in his letter to Bouilet?

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

5. According to Du Camp, on whom was Madame Bovary modeled?

(see the answer key)

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