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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Legend of St. Julian Hospitaler by Gustave Flaubert.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Desplein claim the human body lacks?
(a) A memory.
(b) A soul.
(c) A heart.
(d) An ethical mind.

2. What nationality was Voltaire?
(a) American.
(b) Dutch.
(c) English.
(d) French.

3. What does Desplein's student do when he follows Desplein into church?
(a) Hides in the back of the church.
(b) Goes into confession.
(c) Kneels by him.
(d) Tells the priest that Desplein does not belong in the church.

4. What did Desplein do to honor the water carrier as a man?
(a) Wrote a book for him.
(b) Finished school for him.
(c) Published a world-renowned medical journal for him.
(d) Established a mass for him.

5. What is Desplein renowned for in "The Mass of the Atheist"?
(a) Being an expert and skillfull surgeon.
(b) Being a famous eye doctor.
(c) Being a disbarred doctor.
(d) Being the most unethical doctor in the land.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Micromegas decide to do with his time of exile?

2. Where was the water carrier from that Desplein met when he was a young man?

3. What is the prophecy that Julian's father hears about his son's future?

4. How many times a year does Desplein attend church?

5. In "The Legend of St. Julian Hospitaler", who is the leper in reality?

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