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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Geoffrey ask about disciples and their masters?
(a) Does a master also learn from his disciples?
(b) Is the great writer responsible for his disciples?
(c) Do all disciples receive equal treatment from a master?
(d) Should a disciple acknowledge his debt to his master?

2. How was Achille related to Flaubert?
(a) He was Flaubert's brother-in-law.
(b) They were brothers.
(c) He was Flauert's son.
(d) He was Flaubert's father.

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

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

5. In quizzing the reader on the subject of economics, what question does Geoffrey want answered?
(a) Which women in Flaubert's life fleeced him for money?
(b) How did Flaubert survive given the paltry sums he earned from writing?
(c) What would be the effect if Bouilhet's and Flaubert's finances had been reversed?
(d) Which of Flaubert's works produced a substantial windfall?

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

7. How did Ellen's life change when she had children?
(a) She distanced herself from Geoffrey.
(b) She stopped taking lovers.
(c) She became closer to Geoffrey.
(d) She resumed her writing.

8. What monumental decision did Geoffrey make about Ellen?
(a) He decided he would force her to tell him the truth.
(b) He decided to divorce her.
(c) He decided to take the children away from her.
(d) He decided to cut her life support.

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(b) The information on the signs is out of date.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

10. Which of the following authors lived in Normandy?
(a) Nabokov.
(b) Miller.
(c) Flaubert.
(d) Cervantes.

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

12. Why does Louise say Flaubert feared her?
(a) Because she could ruin his reputation.
(b) Because she had hidden his love notes.
(c) Because she might blackmail him.
(d) Because she understood him.

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

14. According to Geoffrey, which of the following is not a reason that makes people want to know the worst?
(a) Because curiosity always hurdles self-interest.
(b) Because it is love's favorite perversion.
(c) Because people tire of preferring to know the best.
(d) Because people think they can find ways to repair their lives.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does Geoffrey compare a work of art?

2. What organ of the body does Flaubert refer to when explaining the purpose of poetry?

3. To what philosopher does Geoffrey compare Flaubert?

4. What did Geoffrey say was the only thing Ellen never talked about?

5. What did Geoffrey say about his relationship with Ellen?

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