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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10, The Case Against.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Geoffrey defend Flaubert against the charge of being a sadist?
(a) He says that a priest who took Flaubert's confessions said the charge was a lie.
(b) He says that Flaubert was always too ill to act in sadistic ways.
(c) He says Flaubert never commited an unkind act.
(d) He quotes a letter from Flaubert on the subject.

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) Flaubert's childhood.
(c) Flaubert's works.
(d) The influence of politics on Flaubert's life.

3. Why does Geoffrey think that critics want to control literature?
(a) So they can impress their readers.
(b) So they can keep the public from reading inappropriate material.
(c) So they can have power over others.
(d) So they can regulate the past.

4. What did Flaubert think about train travel?
(a) It bored him.
(b) It delighted him.
(c) He thought it was too expensive.
(d) He thought it was a modern marvel.

5. Flaubert was born in what year?
(a) 1800.
(b) 1875.
(c) 1825.
(d) 1850.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Flaubert find when he gets to the top of the Great Pyramid?

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

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

4. How did Flaubert first come to know Juliet Herbert?

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

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