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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, The Flaubert Bestiary.

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 had been bombed then.
(c) It has three times the population.
(d) It has been industrialized.

2. Who was Loulou?
(a) Juliet's parrot.
(b) Caroline's parrot.
(c) Felicite's parrot.
(d) Elisa Schlessinger's parrot.

3. With whom did Flaubert have his most celebrated affair?
(a) Mimi.
(b) Louise Colet.
(c) Elisa Schlessinger.
(d) His mother's maid.

4. 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.

5. From what diseases did Flaubert suffer?
(a) Diabetes and heart disease.
(b) Epilepsy and syphilis.
(c) Diabetes and epilepsy.
(d) Syphilis and diabetes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Although he had once thought of writing a book, what is Geoffrey's actual occupation?

2. Which condition best describes Flaubert at his death?

3. What does Geoffrey learn about Ed when he meets him at the restaurant?

4. The chronology is divided into three sections, the first of which deals with which of the following?

5. What happened to the letters?

(see the answer key)

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