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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. How long after the museum at Croisset opened was the collection at the Hotel-Dieu put together?
(a) One hundred years.
(b) The same week.
(c) Five years.
(d) Forty years.

2. From where does Geoffrey reread the description of the parrot?
(a) From "Madame Bovary."
(b) From Flaubert's diaries.
(c) From "Un coeur simple."
(d) From a letter written to Juliet Herbert.

3. As a student, what subject did Flaubert fail at?
(a) Law.
(b) Architecture.
(c) Medicine.
(d) Economics.

4. In quizzing the reader on the subject of economics, what question does Geoffrey want answered?
(a) How did Flaubert survive given the paltry sums he earned from writing?
(b) Which women in Flaubert's life fleeced him for money?
(c) Which of Flaubert's works produced a substantial windfall?
(d) What would be the effect if Bouilhet's and Flaubert's finances had been reversed?

5. Who was the owner of the dog that Flaubert took for walks and kissed?
(a) Flaubert's mother.
(b) Elisa Schlesinger.
(c) Julie Herbert.
(d) Caroline.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Geoffrey's marital status?

2. Which of the following animals does Flaubert not include in his letter to Bouilet?

3. For what reason does Geoffrey say that he does not like coincidences?

4. Which of the following, in Flaubert's "Over Strand and Field," does he say he doesn't laugh at?

5. What monumental decision did Geoffrey make about Ellen?

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