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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. With what writer does the biographer Enid Starkie compare Flaubert?
(a) Hugo.
(b) Balzac.
(c) Rousseau.
(d) Moliere.
2. How is Rouen different from the first time Geoffrey visited the city?
(a) It has been industrialized.
(b) Its parks have been paved over.
(c) It has three times the population.
(d) It had been bombed then.
3. As a student, what subject did Flaubert fail at?
(a) Architecture.
(b) Economics.
(c) Law.
(d) Medicine.
4. What mistake did the professor from Cambridge point out in a Tennyson work?
(a) The number of men riding into battle.
(b) The year of the battle.
(c) The outcome of the battle.
(d) The name of the colonel who led the troops into battle.
5. What are Geoffrey's thoughts about when he likes to cross the channel?
(a) When it is foggy.
(b) In the summer.
(c) In the winter.
(d) During the off-season.
Short Answer Questions
1. About a year after their first meeting, Geoffrey agrees to meet with Ed for what reason?
2. What objects does Geoffrey Braithwaite, the narrator of "Flaubert's Parrot," describe in the beginning of the book?
3. For what reason was Flaubert confined to the family home as a young man?
4. Geoffrey compares biographies to what objects?
5. How does Geoffrey think authors legitimize coincidences?
Short Essay Questions
1. What was the trick Flaubert planned to play at the Great Pyramid and what was the outcome?
2. 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"?
3. Explain why Flaubert refers to himself as a bear, and particularly as a white one.
4. What does Geoffrey say is the difference between internal mistakes in writing literature and external ones?
5. What factual information does Geoffrey tell the reader about himself?
6. What does Geoffrey say about coincidences?
7. What are several different parrots mentioned in the bestiary?
8. What is ironic about the Flaubert's burial?
9. What examples of literary mistakes does the professor from Cambridge talk about?
10. What does Geoffrey find on the subject of Madame Bovary's eyes when he rereads the book?
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