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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was Caroline?
(a) Flaubert's mother.
(b) Flaubert's sister.
(c) Flaubert's niece.
(d) Flaubert's lover.

2. What do Du Camp and Flaubert do the night before climbing the Great Pyramid?
(a) They research its history.
(b) They sleep beside it.
(c) They take photographs.
(d) They get drunk.

3. Geoffrey compares biographies to what objects?
(a) Trains.
(b) Photographs.
(c) Desks.
(d) Nets.

4. What objects does Geoffrey Braithwaite, the narrator of "Flaubert's Parrot," describe in the beginning of the book?
(a) Flags.
(b) Columns.
(c) Paintings.
(d) Statues.

5. Who was the owner of the dog that Flaubert took for walks and kissed?
(a) Elisa Schlesinger.
(b) Flaubert's mother.
(c) Caroline.
(d) Julie Herbert.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Loulou?

2. What does Geoffrey hope will result from his discussion with Ed?

3. What does Geoffrey see at the second Flaubert museum?

4. What is Geoffrey's marital status?

5. What is Geoffrey's marital status?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are some connections between Flaubert and Gertrude Collier?

2. What does Geoffrey say about coincidences?

3. Describe Ed Winterton.

4. What are several different parrots mentioned in the bestiary?

5. What examples of literary mistakes does the professor from Cambridge talk about?

6. How successful was Flaubert during his student days?

7. How did Ed happen to get the letters between Julie and Flaubert?

8. What does Geoffrey think about omniscient authors of novels?

9. Explain why Flaubert refers to himself as a bear, and particularly as a white one.

10. What is Flaubert's opinion of democracy?

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