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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. What color are Madame Bovary's eyes, according to Geoffrey who says that they may be changed in appearance by the light?
(a) Blue.
(b) Brown.
(c) Grey.
(d) Green.

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

3. Flaubert's ideas in the third section of the chronology are expressed through which literary device?
(a) Literary allusion.
(b) Hyperbole.
(c) Metaphors.
(d) Personification.

4. What was the attitude toward Flaubert of the Collier sisters who Flaubert met when he spent his summers in Trouville?
(a) They laughed at him.
(b) Flaubert infuriated them.
(c) They ignored him and hoped he would leave.
(d) They were infatuated with him,

5. What mistake did the professor from Cambridge point out in a Tennyson work?
(a) The outcome of the battle.
(b) The name of the colonel who led the troops into battle.
(c) The number of men riding into battle.
(d) The year of the battle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the parrot's name?

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

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

4. Which condition best describes Flaubert at his death?

5. What was the unusual characteristic of the sheep whose owner Flaubert took to dinner?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What was included in the dictionary Flaubert wrote?

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

7. What does Geoffrey say about coincidences?

8. What does Geoffrey say is the difference between internal mistakes in writing literature and external ones?

9. What does Geoffrey mean by this statement which he writes after the stories about the Scottish terrier, "What happened to the truth is not recorded"?

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

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