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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 are Geoffrey's thoughts about when he likes to cross the channel?
(a) In the summer.
(b) When it is foggy.
(c) During the off-season.
(d) In the winter.

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

3. When they were lowering Caroline's coffin into the ground, what happened?
(a) Flaubert cried out.
(b) It got stuck.
(c) The church bells began to peal.
(d) The pall bearers dropped it.

4. 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) A volume of Shakespeare.
(b) The Bible.
(c) "Salammbo."
(d) "Madame Bovary."

5. What did Flaubert confess to Louise?
(a) That he spent many hours thinking about what he would do with a million francs.
(b) That he no longer loved her.
(c) That he had had many affairs.
(d) That he had given up writing.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Geoffrey defend the charge that Flaubert hated humanity?

2. What is the difference in time for the trip to Rouen by train for Geoffrey than it was in Flaubert's time?

3. What defense does Geoffrey suggest against those who said Flaubert didn't involve himself in life?

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

5. Who always met Flaubert when he returned to Rouen from Mantes?

(see the answer key)

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