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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. In the newspaper article Flaubert saved, what was the parrot trained to say?
(a) Quotes from Shakespeare.
(b) Curses.
(c) The days of the week.
(d) The name of its owner's lost love.

2. Flaubert was born in what year?
(a) 1875.
(b) 1800.
(c) 1825.
(d) 1850.

3. What should novelists who want to reproduce life's possibilities do?
(a) They should base their ideas on relgious books.
(b) They should write in teams.
(c) They should only draw their ideas from real events.
(d) They should put a set of sealed envelopes with different endings in the back of their books.

4. Which of the following animals does Flaubert not include in his letter to Bouilet?
(a) A monkey.
(b) A lion.
(c) An ostrich.
(d) A donkey.

5. For what reason does Geoffrey read Flaubert?
(a) For self-examination.
(b) For pleasure.
(c) For research on the time period.
(d) For improving his own writing.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Flaubert first come to know Juliet Herbert?

2. Where does Geoffrey first meet Ed Winterton?

3. What was the attitude toward Flaubert of the Collier sisters who Flaubert met when he spent his summers in Trouville?

4. Why does Geoffrey think that critics want to control literature?

5. In what setting does Geoffrey think the most famous nineteenth century fictional depiction of a seduction occurs?

Short Essay Questions

1. What places does Geoffrey go to learn more about Gustave Flaubert?

2. Whose deaths greatly affected Flaubert's life?

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 is the mystery of the two parrots?

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

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

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

9. What is the plot of "Un coeur simple"?

10. What are the three parts of Braithwaite's chronology about?

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