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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 happened to the letters?
(a) Ed ripped them up and dropped them into the sea.
(b) Ed buried them.
(c) Ed sealed them up and left them in an undisclosed location.
(d) Ed burned them.

2. What happened after the dragoman lost his Scottish terrier?
(a) The dragoman barked like a dog and the terrier answered back.
(b) The dragoman asked Flaubert if he could have Flaubert's dog.
(c) Flaubert bought the dragoman another Scottish terrier.
(d) The dragoman looked for the dog for the rest of his life.

3. Who was Caroline?
(a) Flaubert's niece.
(b) Flaubert's sister.
(c) Flaubert's mother.
(d) Flaubert's lover.

4. Geoffrey thinks that if Flaubert had not been a bear he might have been what other animal?
(a) A camel.
(b) An elephant.
(c) A tiger.
(d) A whale.

5. What did Flaubert never do?
(a) Finish a book.
(b) Dance.
(c) Travel abroad.
(d) Have an affair.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Geoffrey notice that the trains pass as they leave the station in Croisset?

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

3. For what reason was Flaubert confined to the family home as a young man?

4. To what does Geoffrey compare a work of art?

5. What does Geoffrey ask Ed about the content of the letters?

(see the answer key)

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