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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13, Pure Story.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Geoffrey, how did Flaubert sometimes travel in London?
(a) In rented carriages.
(b) On horseback
(c) Via the London Underground.
(d) By bus.

2. Which of the following did Flaubert not do to Louise?
(a) Make enemies of her parents.
(b) Lie to her.
(c) Speak ill of her to her friends.
(d) Ridicule her work.

3. What mistake did Enid Starkie make when she published her biography of Flaubert?
(a) She used a portrait on her first volume about Flaubert that wasn't him.
(b) She left out the entire story of "Un couer simple" from her manuscript.
(c) She said that Flaubert never had a mistress.
(d) She said that Flaubert's mother forbid him to become a writer.

4. Where did Geoffrey say he thought his wife's despair came from?
(a) A child she could not help.
(b) A chamber of her heart which was inaccessible to him.
(c) The illness she was fighting.
(d) The knowledge that Geoffrey cheated on her.

5. What did Geoffrey want to know about his wife?
(a) He wanted to know what others thought of her.
(b) He wanted to know if she planned to take his money.
(c) He wanted to know how she knew his secrets.
(d) He wanted to know the worst about her.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the Hotel-Dieu, the museum is partly about Flaubert and partly about what?

2. Why didn't Flaubert include many trains in his work?

3. What did Flaubert never do?

4. What mistake did the professor from Cambridge point out in a Tennyson work?

5. Who is Humbert?

(see the answer key)

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