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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 did Ed originally intend to do with the letters?
(a) Donate them to the Flaubert museum.
(b) Keep them for his collection.
(c) Sell them.
(d) Give them to Geoffrey.

2. The dates in the second list of the chronology include those associated with what?
(a) The deaths and failures in Flaubert's life.
(b) The influence of politics on Flaubert's life.
(c) Flaubert's childhood.
(d) Flaubert's works.

3. Which condition best describes Flaubert at his death?
(a) Impoverished and lonely.
(b) Impoverished but loved.
(c) Wealthy and famous.
(d) Wealthy and unknown.

4. What is the parrot's name?
(a) Mimi.
(b) Loulou.
(c) Polly.
(d) Gustave.

5. How does Flaubert feel about the organization of his ideas?
(a) He is haphazard about organization about half the time.
(b) He puts everything into neat little categories.
(c) He purposely lets ideas fall where they will.
(d) He wants others to organize his ideas for him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What should novelists who want to reproduce life's possibilities do?

2. According to Geoffrey, what is included in Flaubert's dictionary along with a catalog of cliches and odd definitions?

3. What happened after the dragoman lost his Scottish terrier?

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

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

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