2. What do Du Camp and Flaubert do the night before climbing the Great Pyramid?
(a) They get drunk.
(b) They take photographs.
(c) They sleep beside it.
(d) They research its history.

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

4. Why does Geoffrey say that we cannot know everything about the past?
(a) Because it would be impossible to take in everything.
(b) Because it would confuse us.
(c) Because much of history has never been written down.
(d) Because historians have conflicting ideas about the past.

5. The third list in the chronology consists of what?
(a) Flaubert's thoughts through the years.
(b) Flaubert's death.
(c) Flaubert's correspondence.
(d) Flaubert's love affairs.

Short Answer Questions

1. Geoffrey maintains that mistakes like the professor pointed out in his speech are external mistakes, but Geoffrey is more concerned with internal mistakes which he considers to be what?

2. What mistake did Enid Starkie make when she published her biography of Flaubert?

3. With whom did Flaubert have his most celebrated affair?

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

5. Geoffrey thinks that if Flaubert had not been a bear he might have been what other animal?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Ed happen to get the letters between Julie and Flaubert?

2. What was the trick Flaubert planned to play at the Great Pyramid and what was the outcome?

3. What was included in the dictionary Flaubert wrote?

4. 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"?

5. What does Geoffrey say about coincidences?

6. What is ironic about the Flaubert's burial?

7. What are several different parrots mentioned in the bestiary?

8. What places does Geoffrey go to learn more about Gustave Flaubert?

9. What does Geoffrey think about omniscient authors of novels?

10. What are the three parts of Braithwaite's chronology about?

(see the answer keys)

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