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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why didn't Flaubert include many trains in his work?
(a) Flaubert hated trains.
(b) Most of Flaubert's work was set before the popularity of trains in France.
(c) Flaubert wrote books and stories set in isolated villages.
(d) Flaubert wrote about the Middle Ages.

2. How does Geoffrey defend the charge that Flaubert hated humanity?
(a) He details Flaubert's philanthropy.
(b) He says that Flaubert loved some people.
(c) He tells how Flaubert saved the lives of some Boy Scouts.
(d) He says that Flaubert's books prove otherwise.

3. According to Geoffrey, what did Flaubert think about democracy?
(a) He thought democracy was merely a stage in the history of government.
(b) He thought democracy would eventually come to every country.
(c) He thought democracy would ruin France.
(d) He thought democracy was noble.

4. When one of Flaubert's doctors called him "an hysterical old woman," what was his reaction?
(a) He used the comment as a premise for a short story.
(b) He sued the doctor.
(c) He judged the observation profound.
(d) He never went to see a doctor again.

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

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

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

8. According to Du Camp, how should the name Bovary be pronounced?
(a) Like the word "brother" without the first "r."
(b) With a long "o" as in "boat."
(c) With the accent on the last syllable.
(d) With a short "o" as in "bother."

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

10. Why was Louise a risk in Flaubert's life?
(a) Because she meant the risk of partnership.
(b) Because Flaubert spent so much money on her.
(c) Because of the possibility of disease.
(d) Because she was married.

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

12. What was the subject of the metaphysical novel Flaubert made plans to write?
(a) A man who could not love anyone who loved him.
(b) A man who could only communicate with animals.
(c) A man who wanted to see the world, but would go no farther than five miles from his home.
(d) A man who was unhappy in his life but happy in his dreams.

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

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

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What monumental decision did Geoffrey make about Ellen?

2. Geoffrey thinks that preparing for death is part of what?

3. Which of the following are not used to describe Flaubert in Braithwaite's Dictionary?

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

5. What did Flaubert think should accompany scientific advances?

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