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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. With whom did Flaubert have his most celebrated affair?
(a) Mimi.
(b) Louise Colet.
(c) Elisa Schlessinger.
(d) His mother's maid.

2. In what way is Felicite completely different from Flaubert?
(a) She is inarticulate.
(b) She takes lovers.
(c) She writes in a diary.
(d) She is lonely.

3. What should novelists who want to reproduce life's possibilities do?
(a) They should only draw their ideas from real events.
(b) They should put a set of sealed envelopes with different endings in the back of their books.
(c) They should base their ideas on relgious books.
(d) They should write in teams.

4. What is Geoffrey's marital status?
(a) He is married.
(b) He is single.
(c) He is divorced.
(d) He is a widower.

5. Who is Humbert?
(a) The translator who travels with Flaubert and Du Camp.
(b) The name of a Nabokov character who seduced young girls.
(c) The Russian guide who took Flaubert to the top of the Great Pyramid.
(d) The lawyer hired by Flaubert in Rouen.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Geoffrey, what is the sweetest moment of writing?

2. What does Geoffrey see at the second Flaubert museum?

3. How is Rouen different from the first time Geoffrey visited the city?

4. What mistake in "The Lord of the Flies" does the professor from Cambridge talk about?

5. Who was Caroline?

(see the answer key)

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