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(d) The information on the signs is out of date.

3. What did Ellen want to know about Geoffrey?
(a) She wanted to know where he spent his money.
(b) She wanted to know what others thought of him.
(c) She wanted to know how he really spent his days.
(d) She only wanted to know the best about him.

4. What did Flaubert imagine could happen if he married Louise?
(a) She would stop loving him.
(b) He would stop loving her.
(c) She would have a child and die.
(d) He would stop devoting time to his writing.

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

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

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

8. What did Flaubert think about train travel?
(a) It bored him.
(b) It delighted him.
(c) He thought it was a modern marvel.
(d) He thought it was too expensive.

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

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

11. In the psychology section of the examination, what two women are compared?
(a) Madame Bovary and Eleanor Marx.
(b) Elisa Schlessinger and Louise Colet.
(c) Madame Bovary and Louise Colet.
(d) Juliet Herbert and Eleanor Marx.

12. Geoffrey feels that he understands Ellen less than he understands whom?
(a) Himself.
(b) His son.
(c) His mother.
(d) Flaubert.

13. What organ of the body does Flaubert refer to when explaining the purpose of poetry?
(a) The brain.
(b) The hand.
(c) The heart.
(d) The spleen.

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

15. 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 could not cry even though books often made him cry.
(c) That he would no longer have anyone to whom he could tell secrets.
(d) That his sister was the model for most of his heroines.