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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the Hotel-Dieu, the museum is partly about Flaubert and partly about what?
(a) The French Revolution.
(b) World literature.
(c) Natural history.
(d) Medical history.

2. What does Geoffrey ask Ed about the content of the letters?
(a) He asked if Julie wrote about her children.
(b) He asks if the letters proved Flaubert and Julie Herbert had an affair.
(c) He asks if Flaubert discussed death in his letters.
(d) He asked if Flaubert used the letters as the basis for any of his stories.

3. Flaubert refers to himself as a bear and his sister as what animal?
(a) The rabbit.
(b) The alligator.
(c) The rat.
(d) The lion.

4. After her parrot dies, what does Felicite do?
(a) She has him stuffed and prays to him.
(b) She has his photograph taken.
(c) She buries him and buys a headstone.
(d) She buys another parrot.

5. How many times are Madame Bovary's eyes actually mentioned in the novel?
(a) Six.
(b) One.
(c) Ten.
(d) Dozens.

6. How did Flaubert first come to know Juliet Herbert?
(a) She was his sister-in-law.
(b) He met her at church.
(c) She was his mother's maid.
(d) She was governess to Flaubert's niece.

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

8. What mistake in "The Lord of the Flies" does the professor from Cambridge talk about?
(a) The boys come to the island on an obsolete aircraft.
(b) Piggy's glasses are for shortsightedness and could not have lit the fire.
(c) Ralph dreams of a place he has never been and calls it home.
(d) No one thought of fishing, yet the boys ate fish.

9. How does Geoffrey think authors legitimize coincidences?
(a) They ignore criticism of the coincidences in their books.
(b) They call them ironies.
(c) They use them to justify their characters.
(d) They use them to justify the endings of their books.

10. Who was Loulou?
(a) Elisa Schlessinger's parrot.
(b) Caroline's parrot.
(c) Felicite's parrot.
(d) Juliet's parrot.

11. What does Geoffrey think might be a reason why Flaubert refers to himself as a white bear?
(a) Because other bears have been used by humans, but not the white bear.
(b) Because he once had a stuffed white bear as a child.
(c) Because other bears appear to often in literature.
(d) Because white bears are a symbol of goodness.

12. Flaubert's ideas in the third section of the chronology are expressed through which literary device?
(a) Hyperbole.
(b) Personification.
(c) Literary allusion.
(d) Metaphors.

13. About a year after their first meeting, Geoffrey agrees to meet with Ed for what reason?
(a) To plan a trip to the Flaubert museums.
(b) To talk about some information Ed has obtained.
(c) To discuss "Madame Bovary."
(d) To exchange books.

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

15. Flaubert was born in what year?
(a) 1825.
(b) 1850.
(c) 1800.
(d) 1875.

Short Answer Questions

1. What particular criticism does Starkie have of Flaubert's characterization of Madame Bovary?

2. Although he had once thought of writing a book, what is Geoffrey's actual occupation?

3. What happened to the letters?

4. Who does Flaubert feel he will be tied to until one of them dies?

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

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