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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why didn't Flaubert include many trains in his work?
(a) Most of Flaubert's work was set before the popularity of trains in France.
(b) Flaubert hated trains.
(c) Flaubert wrote about the Middle Ages.
(d) Flaubert wrote books and stories set in isolated villages.

2. Which of the following did Flaubert not do to Louise?
(a) Lie to her.
(b) Ridicule her work.
(c) Speak ill of her to her friends.
(d) Make enemies of her parents.

3. According to Du Camp, how should the name Bovary be pronounced?
(a) With the accent on the last syllable.
(b) With a short "o" as in "bother."
(c) Like the word "brother" without the first "r."
(d) With a long "o" as in "boat."

4. Geoffrey said that Flaubert learned that life is not a choice between murdering your way to throne or what?
(a) Murdering your servant.
(b) Marrying your way to the throne.
(c) Farming the land.
(d) Slopping a pig.

5. In the geographical part of Geoffrey's examination, what comment does he make about the region in which Flaubert lived?
(a) That the region contributed to the slowness of Flaubert's work.
(b) That Flaubert struggled to move out of the region.
(c) That the air was much too dry in the region.
(d) That the region has produced an inordinate number of writers.

6. While traveling on the train to Rouen, what does Geoffrey notice about the signs?
(a) The information on the signs is out of date.
(b) Words on the signs have been blacked out.
(c) Some of the signs have been posted upside-down.
(d) The signs are printed in multiple languages.

7. Why did Flaubert want Louise to write like he wrote?
(a) Because he thought his way was best.
(b) Because he told his friends he could make her do so.
(c) Because he thought it would show her loyalty.
(d) Because he was jealous of her work.

8. Geoffrey thinks that preparing for death is part of what?
(a) Life.
(b) Love.
(c) One's personal philosophy.
(d) Mental illness.

9. Geoffrey says that you cannot change humanity, you can only what?
(a) Know it.
(b) Pray for it.
(c) Decry it.
(d) Participate in it.

10. Where did Geoffrey say he thought his wife's despair came from?
(a) The knowledge that Geoffrey cheated on her.
(b) The illness she was fighting.
(c) A chamber of her heart which was inaccessible to him.
(d) A child she could not help.

11. Where did Louise and Flaubert meet?
(a) On a train.
(b) At the park in Rouen.
(c) At a scuptor's studio.
(d) Aboard ship.

12. What did Geoffrey want to know about his wife?
(a) He wanted to know if she planned to take his money.
(b) He wanted to know what others thought of her.
(c) He wanted to know how she knew his secrets.
(d) He wanted to know the worst about her.

13. What French work did Flaubert translate into English?
(a) The Three Musketeers.
(b) Rousseau's essays.
(c) Les Miserables.
(d) Candide.

14. Who did Cervantes refer to as the source of his famous hero?
(a) Madame Bovary.
(b) Felicite.
(c) Gustave Flaubert.
(d) Candide.

15. What did Flaubert think should accompany scientific advances?
(a) Increased study opportunities.
(b) Moral advances.
(c) Literary advances.
(d) Economic advances.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many children did Geoffrey and Ellen have?

2. In the "History (with Astrology)" section of the examination, what does Flaubert say we are dancing on?

3. What does Geoffrey ask about disciples and their masters?

4. Why does Louise say Flaubert feared her?

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

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