2. What does Louise Colet say she will take as a compliment?
(a) That she is careful about money.
(b) That she is a dangerous woman.
(c) That she has no guile about her.
(d) That she swears like a man.

3. What animal does Flaubert dream about in the dream Geoffrey includes in the psychoanalysis section of the examination?
(a) Lion.
(b) Bear.
(c) Monkey.
(d) Rat.

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

5. Why did Flaubert say that he wrote "Madame Bovary"?
(a) Because the idea came to him in a dream.
(b) Because it was the true story of his mother's life.
(c) Because he knew it would make his fortune.
(d) Because he hated realism.

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

7. Who was the first French writer to appear on a stamp?
(a) Flaubert.
(b) Rosnard.
(c) Hugo.
(d) Balzac.

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

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

10. According to Geoffrey, how did Flaubert sometimes travel in London?
(a) Via the London Underground.
(b) By bus.
(c) On horseback
(d) In rented carriages.

11. Why does Geoffrey say is about the death of writers?
(a) That writers almost always die at a younger age than others.
(b) That when a writer dies critics feel free to say what they want about him.
(c) That when a writer is lost to the world, it's a loss to many people.
(d) That they are not special, that they are just described deaths.

12. What does Geoffrey call the devil's mark of the snorkel of sanity?
(a) Literary allusion.
(b) Parody.
(c) Irony.
(d) Satire.

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

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

15. Which of the following was Flaubert not accused of?
(a) That he shot wildlife in the desert.
(b) That he taught no positive values.
(c) That he copied others' works.
(d) That he acted terribly toward women.