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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Geoffrey say was the only thing Ellen never talked about?
(a) Her secret life.
(b) Her family.
(c) Her illness.
(d) Her ambitions.

3. What does Geoffrey say mourning is full of?
(a) Visitors.
(b) Weeping.
(c) Time.
(d) Memories.

4. Who is defined as Flaubert's social alter ego?
(a) Maxime du Camp.
(b) Emile Zola.
(c) Jean-Paul Sartre.
(d) Louis Bouilhet.

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

6. What does Louise think people will think about her and Flaubert after they are dead?
(a) She thinks people will take her side.
(b) She thinks people will take his side.
(c) She thinks people will think their love affair was tragic.
(d) She thinks people will read nothing either of them wrote.

7. What did Geoffrey say about his relationship with Ellen?
(a) He said Ellen would go to the ends of the earth for him.
(b) He said Ellen had no one else to love.
(c) He said Ellen didn't love him.
(d) He said Ellen would never take a lover.

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

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

10. According to Geoffrey, what is the sweetest moment of writing?
(a) Seeing the book in print.
(b) Getting an idea for a book that never has to be written.
(c) Writing the final word.
(d) Reading a good review on a book.

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

12. Who always met Flaubert when he returned to Rouen from Mantes?
(a) His mother.
(b) Elisa Schlesinger.
(c) Maxine du Camp.
(d) His sister.

13. What did Flaubert never do?
(a) Have an affair.
(b) Dance.
(c) Travel abroad.
(d) Finish a book.

14. At Croisset, what was on the site of what was Flaubert's home?
(a) A cotton mill.
(b) A refinery.
(c) A paper factory.
(d) A shoe factory.

15. According to Geoffrey, at one point in Flaubert's life did he no longer need fantasies?
(a) When he moved out of his mother's home.
(b) When Louise married him.
(c) When he became wealthy.
(d) When "Madame Bovary" was published.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is it that Geoffrey says about a line of writing which is good?

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

4. Why did Flaubert want Louise to write like he wrote?

5. What does Geoffrey call the devil's mark of the snorkel of sanity?

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