Is Maimonides using philosophy to explain Bible texts, or is he using scripture to support philosophical views?

If matter is a veil over the deity, can knowledge of the world tell us nothing about God?

How are anger & disobedience deficiencies of matter (pp. 84-87)?

Does Maimonides' attitude toward women & slaves distort his view of matter & form (pp. 83-87)?

What is the "great assembly" referred to on p. 88?

How can Maimonides account for moral evil, e.g. injustice, if privations do not have agents?

If someone complained to you that there was more evil than good in the world, would you use Maimonides' arguments (pp. 93 ff.) to dissuade them?

Do Bouvard & Pecuchet represent Flaubert when they agree that "the morality of art rests on the side that flatters [each person's] own interests?"

Ch. 5, p. 133

Did you have difficulty distinguishing the joint thoughts of Bouvard & Pecuchet from those of the narrator?

In the Dictionary, under "Antiques," is Flaubert taking a cynical view of antiques, or mocking the cynical view?

Likewise for "budget," "concision," "concupiscence," "conspirator," "countenance," "face," "references."

How would the novel have been different if it had only one main character?

Turgenev told Flaubert that satire must be short to be readable. Was he right?