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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. How is Rouen different from the first time Geoffrey visited the city?
(a) Its parks have been paved over.
(b) It has three times the population.
(c) It has been industrialized.
(d) It had been bombed then.

2. How did Flaubert first come to know Juliet Herbert?
(a) She was his mother's maid.
(b) She was governess to Flaubert's niece.
(c) She was his sister-in-law.
(d) He met her at church.

3. According to Du Camp, on whom was Madame Bovary modeled?
(a) Flaubert's cousin.
(b) The village seamstress of Rouen.
(c) Flaubert's first mistress.
(d) The second wife of a medical officer.

4. Geoffrey maintains that mistakes like the professor pointed out in his speech are external mistakes, but Geoffrey is more concerned with internal mistakes which he considers to be what?
(a) Untrue.
(b) Something designed to keep the reader alert.
(c) Philosophically unsound.
(d) Sloppy.

5. Who actually carried out the trick that resulted in Flaubert's find at the top of the Great Pyramid?
(a) Du Camp.
(b) Flaubert.
(c) The translator.
(d) Nabakov.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Du Camp and Flaubert do the night before climbing the Great Pyramid?

2. What did Geoffrey do to ascertain the color of Madame Bovary's eyes?

3. What was the name of the greyhound that was Flaubert's final companion?

4. About a year after their first meeting, Geoffrey agrees to meet with Ed for what reason?

5. The third list in the chronology consists of what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Geoffrey say about coincidences?

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

3. What was the trick Flaubert planned to play at the Great Pyramid and what was the outcome?

4. What is ironic about the Flaubert's burial?

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

6. Whose deaths greatly affected Flaubert's life?

7. What is Flaubert's opinion of democracy?

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

9. Flaubert compares himself to many things. Name some of them.

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

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