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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Geoffrey say we need to respect about Flaubert even if we think him naive or unsuccessful?
(a) His body of work.
(b) His seriousness.
(c) His philanthropy.
(d) His legacy.

2. What is Geoffrey's marital status?
(a) Single.
(b) Married.
(c) Widowed.
(d) Divorced.

3. For what reason was Flaubert confined to the family home as a young man?
(a) Because of a scandal involving a maid.
(b) Because of the war.
(c) Because of a broken leg.
(d) Because of an epileptic attack.

4. What do Du Camp and Flaubert do the night before climbing the Great Pyramid?
(a) They take photographs.
(b) They get drunk.
(c) They research its history.
(d) They sleep beside it.

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

6. 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.

7. What did Ed originally intend to do with the letters?
(a) Keep them for his collection.
(b) Give them to Geoffrey.
(c) Donate them to the Flaubert museum.
(d) Sell them.

8. Flaubert, who didn't believe in progress, thought that democracy made people what?
(a) Territorial.
(b) Unhappy.
(c) Stupid.
(d) Dependent on government.

9. What mistake did Enid Starkie make when she published her biography of Flaubert?
(a) She said that Flaubert's mother forbid him to become a writer.
(b) She used a portrait on her first volume about Flaubert that wasn't him.
(c) She said that Flaubert never had a mistress.
(d) She left out the entire story of "Un couer simple" from her manuscript.

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

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

12. Where does Geoffrey first meet Ed Winterton?
(a) At a book fair.
(b) At a friend's home.
(c) At the university.
(d) At a bar.

13. What mistake did the professor from Cambridge point out in a Tennyson work?
(a) The number of men riding into battle.
(b) The year of the battle.
(c) The outcome of the battle.
(d) The name of the colonel who led the troops into battle.

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

15. Geoffrey thinks that if Flaubert had not been a bear he might have been what other animal?
(a) A tiger.
(b) A camel.
(c) An elephant.
(d) A whale.

Short Answer Questions

1. The dates in the second list of the chronology include those associated with what?

2. What was Geoffrey's reaction to Ed's disposal of the letters?

3. Why does Geoffrey think that critics want to control literature?

4. What did Flaubert's niece ask for after Flaubert's death?

5. Flaubert was born in what year?

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