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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What tantalizes Geoffrey about Flaubert's ideas?
(a) How much Flaubert's ideas are like his own.
(b) How many more books of Flaubert's he has yet to read.
(c) How much Flaubert sounds like he belongs in the twentieth century.
(d) All of the unwritten works.

3. To whom were all of Flaubert's letters to Louise Colet sent through?
(a) Louise Colet's brother.
(b) Maxime du Camp.
(c) Felicite.
(d) Flaubert's sister.

4. Who is defined as Flaubert's jailer?
(a) Maxime du Camp.
(b) Louise Colet.
(c) Flaubert's doctor.
(d) Flaubert's mother.

5. How does Geoffrey defend Flaubert against the charge of being a sadist?
(a) He says that a priest who took Flaubert's confessions said the charge was a lie.
(b) He says Flaubert never commited an unkind act.
(c) He quotes a letter from Flaubert on the subject.
(d) He says that Flaubert was always too ill to act in sadistic ways.

6. What did Louise do after Flaubert broke off their affair?
(a) She ripped up one of his original manuscripts.
(b) She went to see him at Croisset.
(c) She wrote a letter to his mother.
(d) She started an affair with his best friend.

7. In his letters, what did Flaubert often write to Louise about?
(a) Her beauty.
(b) His mother.
(c) His new works.
(d) Her upcoming visits.

8. Who was known as Flaubert's second mother?
(a) Louise Colet.
(b) George Sand.
(c) Elisa Schlessinger.
(d) Caroline Flaubert.

9. In his examination paper on literary criticism, what does Flaubert say about his sister's death?
(a) That his wife was secretly glad his sister died.
(b) That he would no longer have anyone to whom he could tell secrets.
(c) That his sister was the model for most of his heroines.
(d) That he could not cry even though books often made him cry.

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

11. What is Geoffrey's response to the accusation that Flaubert was a pessimist?
(a) He explains why Flaubert was actually an optimist.
(b) He says that he didn't know one had to defend authors for being pessimists.
(c) He says that people don't understand the satire in Flaubert's novels.
(d) He gives a list of Flaubert's optimistic quotes.

12. What does Geoffrey wonder about the books that authors don't write?
(a) He wonders if they matter.
(b) He wonders if they get written by someone else.
(c) He wonders what the world is missing out on.
(d) He wonders if they haunt the authors who thought of the ideas.

13. Which of the following, in Flaubert's "Over Strand and Field," does he say he doesn't laugh at?
(a) Gendarmes.
(b) Attorneys.
(c) Painters.
(d) Professors of literature.

14. According to Louise, what kind of lover was Flaubert?
(a) Intellectual.
(b) Forceful.
(c) Shy.
(d) Eager.

15. What did Flaubert confess to Louise?
(a) That he had given up writing.
(b) That he spent many hours thinking about what he would do with a million francs.
(c) That he no longer loved her.
(d) That he had had many affairs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Geoffrey notice that the trains pass as they leave the station in Croisset?

2. Geoffrey says that you cannot change humanity, you can only what?

3. Why didn't Flaubert include many trains in his work?

4. In quizzing the reader on the subject of economics, what question does Geoffrey want answered?

5. What did Flaubert imagine could happen if he married Louise?

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