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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. What does Geoffrey learn about Ed when he meets him at the restaurant?
(a) Ed has married.
(b) Ed wants to donate materials to the Flaubert museums.
(c) Ed has lost the book he hoped to exchange with Geoffrey.
(d) Ed has been fired.

2. When Gertrude's son-in-law, the explorer Henry Morton Stanley, was forced to get rid of his belongings during a trip, what book did he toss?
(a) The Bible.
(b) A volume of Shakespeare.
(c) "Madame Bovary."
(d) "Salammbo."

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

4. For what reason does Geoffrey say that he does not like coincidences?
(a) Because he feels that coincidences rob people of their sense of control.
(b) Because he agrees with Flaubert's opinion on the subject.
(c) Because he prefers to feel that life is chaotic.
(d) Because coincidences make him feel uncomfortable.

5. What French work did Flaubert translate into English?
(a) Rousseau's essays.
(b) Les Miserables.
(c) Candide.
(d) The Three Musketeers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Flaubert, who didn't believe in progress, thought that democracy made people what?

2. What are Geoffrey's thoughts about when he likes to cross the channel?

3. What do Du Camp and Flaubert do the night before climbing the Great Pyramid?

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

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

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