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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What happened to the man who owned the parrot in the newspaper article?
(a) He died trying to save the parrot.
(b) He bought an aviary.
(c) He believed he had turned into a parrot.
(d) He wrote several stories about the parrot.

3. How is Rouen different from the first time Geoffrey visited the city?
(a) It had been bombed then.
(b) It has been industrialized.
(c) It has three times the population.
(d) Its parks have been paved over.

4. In the story, "Un coeur simple," what is Felicite's occupation?
(a) Teacher.
(b) Servant woman.
(c) Prostitute.
(d) Seamstress.

5. Why does Geoffrey think that critics want to control literature?
(a) So they can impress their readers.
(b) So they can have power over others.
(c) So they can keep the public from reading inappropriate material.
(d) So they can regulate the past.

6. What does Geoffrey do on his last day in Rouen?
(a) He photographs the statues.
(b) He eats at a snack bar called Le Flaubert.
(c) He drives to Croisset.
(d) He outlines his new book.

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

8. How does Flaubert feel about the organization of his ideas?
(a) He puts everything into neat little categories.
(b) He is haphazard about organization about half the time.
(c) He purposely lets ideas fall where they will.
(d) He wants others to organize his ideas for him.

9. Who actually carried out the trick that resulted in Flaubert's find at the top of the Great Pyramid?
(a) Du Camp.
(b) The translator.
(c) Nabakov.
(d) Flaubert.

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

11. Who does Flaubert feel he will be tied to until one of them dies?
(a) His mother.
(b) His sister.
(c) Elisa Schlesinger.
(d) Louise Colet.

12. What was the attitude toward Flaubert of the Collier sisters who Flaubert met when he spent his summers in Trouville?
(a) They were infatuated with him,
(b) They ignored him and hoped he would leave.
(c) They laughed at him.
(d) Flaubert infuriated them.

13. Geoffrey compares biographies to what objects?
(a) Desks.
(b) Trains.
(c) Nets.
(d) Photographs.

14. With what writer does the biographer Enid Starkie compare Flaubert?
(a) Hugo.
(b) Moliere.
(c) Balzac.
(d) Rousseau.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What objects does Geoffrey Braithwaite, the narrator of "Flaubert's Parrot," describe in the beginning of the book?

3. 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?

4. How many letters did Ed get from the woman named Kent?

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

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