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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 word does Geoffrey say that people are no longer allowed to use for describing lunacy?
(a) Freak.
(b) Mad.
(c) Idiot.
(d) Crazy.

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

3. Geoffrey feels that he understands Ellen less than he understands whom?
(a) Himself.
(b) His son.
(c) His mother.
(d) Flaubert.

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

5. Aside from the fact that the house at Croisset was big enough for him to have a study, why else was it good for Flaubert?
(a) It was near the railroad station.
(b) It was set far off from the road.
(c) It was small enough to discourage visitors.
(d) It was easily heated and stayed cool in the summer.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following authors lived in Normandy?

3. Flaubert's ideas in the third section of the chronology are expressed through which literary device?

4. After her parrot dies, what does Felicite do?

5. What does Geoffrey wonder about the books that authors don't write?

(see the answer key)

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