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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. As a student, what subject did Flaubert fail at?
(a) Law.
(b) Architecture.
(c) Medicine.
(d) Economics.

2. How does Flaubert feel about the organization of his ideas?
(a) He puts everything into neat little categories.
(b) He is haphazard about organization about half the time.
(c) He wants others to organize his ideas for him.
(d) He purposely lets ideas fall where they will.

3. What did Flaubert's niece ask for after Flaubert's death?
(a) The original manuscript of "Madame Bovary."
(b) Flaubert's house.
(c) Flaubert's stuffed parrot.
(d) A cast of the writer's hand.

4. In what setting does Geoffrey think the most famous nineteenth century fictional depiction of a seduction occurs?
(a) Out in the countryside.
(b) In a cab of a carriage.
(c) In a bordello.
(d) Onboard a ship.

5. From what diseases did Flaubert suffer?
(a) Diabetes and epilepsy.
(b) Syphilis and diabetes.
(c) Diabetes and heart disease.
(d) Epilepsy and syphilis.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which condition best describes Flaubert at his death?

2. What color are Madame Bovary's eyes, according to Geoffrey who says that they may be changed in appearance by the light?

3. What had Ed lied about to the woman named Kent who gave him the letters?

4. Flaubert, who didn't believe in progress, thought that democracy made people what?

5. How is Rouen different from the first time Geoffrey visited the city?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe Ed Winterton.

4. How successful was Flaubert during his student days?

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

6. What is the mystery of the two parrots?

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

8. Why might Geoffrey be so interested in the mystery of the parrots?

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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