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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Finders Keepers.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is Rouen different from the first time Geoffrey visited the city?
(a) Its parks have been paved over.
(b) It has three times the population.
(c) It had been bombed then.
(d) It has been industrialized.

2. About a year after their first meeting, Geoffrey agrees to meet with Ed for what reason?
(a) To discuss "Madame Bovary."
(b) To exchange books.
(c) To plan a trip to the Flaubert museums.
(d) To talk about some information Ed has obtained.

3. The dates in the second list of the chronology include those associated with what?
(a) The deaths and failures in Flaubert's life.
(b) Flaubert's childhood.
(c) Flaubert's works.
(d) The influence of politics on Flaubert's life.

4. What does Geoffrey ask Ed about the content of the letters?
(a) He asked if Flaubert used the letters as the basis for any of his stories.
(b) He asked if Julie wrote about her children.
(c) He asks if Flaubert discussed death in his letters.
(d) He asks if the letters proved Flaubert and Julie Herbert had an affair.

5. What does Geoffrey see at the second Flaubert museum?
(a) Another stuffed green parrot.
(b) Photographs of Flaubert's relatives.
(c) Love letters written by Flaubert.
(d) The original manuscript of Madame Bovary.

Short Answer Questions

1. From what diseases did Flaubert suffer?

2. What objects does Geoffrey Braithwaite, the narrator of "Flaubert's Parrot," describe in the beginning of the book?

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

4. In what way is Felicite completely different from Flaubert?

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

(see the answer key)

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