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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15, And the Parrot....

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Geoffrey say was the only thing Ellen never talked about?
(a) Her family.
(b) Her secret life.
(c) Her illness.
(d) Her ambitions.

2. To what does Geoffrey compare a work of art?
(a) A solution to a difficult problem.
(b) An honest man.
(c) A pyramid in the desert.
(d) A troubled mind.

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

4. Why does Geoffrey say that we cannot know everything about the past?
(a) Because much of history has never been written down.
(b) Because it would be impossible to take in everything.
(c) Because historians have conflicting ideas about the past.
(d) Because it would confuse us.

5. What did Flaubert think should accompany scientific advances?
(a) Literary advances.
(b) Moral advances.
(c) Economic advances.
(d) Increased study opportunities.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. In his examination paper on literary criticism, what does Flaubert say about his sister's death?

5. Why does Geoffrey say is about the death of writers?

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