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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What military position did Alice's great-great-uncle hold?
(a) Colonel
(b) Sergeant
(c) Captain
(d) General

2. What was the name of the confectioner who made honey cakes and nut candies?
(a) Fouquet
(b) Nestlé
(c) Ravignan
(d) Parisian Chocolat

3. What area of Paris is popular with artists?
(a) Place de la Concord
(b) Montmartre
(c) Latin Quarter
(d) Tuilleries

4. Picasso painted a famous scene with friends gathered around what object?
(a) coffin
(b) flowerpot
(c) toilet
(d) angel

5. What was Alice's great passion?
(a) Flying
(b) Tapestry
(c) Music
(d) Archery

6. Duret commented to an artist that there are two kinds of art. There is art, and then there is ___________________.
(a) official art
(b) pointless art
(c) Cubist art
(d) commercial art

7. What famous school did Gertrude Stein attend?
(a) Columbia
(b) Oxford
(c) Sorbonne
(d) Johns Hopkins

8. What about Gertrude impressed Alice?
(a) Her short stories
(b) Height
(c) Her voice
(d) Worldliness

9. Where did Alice choose as a travel destination?
(a) China
(b) Hawaii
(c) Argentina
(d) Paris

10. Who did Alice meet during her travels?
(a) Ralph Waldo Emerson
(b) Gertrude Stein
(c) Winston Churchill
(d) Charlie Chaplin

11. What was Alice's mother's name?
(a) Ava
(b) Edwina
(c) Emilie
(d) Edna

12. What activity did Stein partake in every afternoon?
(a) drinking tea with friends
(b) writing poetry
(c) walking around Paris
(d) playing with the dog

13. What item did Picasso withhold from his wife?
(a) freedom
(b) jewelry
(c) comics
(d) money

14. Gertrude Stein's brother had a fondness for what type of art?
(a) Impressionist
(b) Renaissance
(c) Egyptian
(d) Japanese

15. What event caused Alice to lapse with her music?
(a) Her mother's death
(b) San Francisco fire
(c) College
(d) Earthquake

Short Answer Questions

1. What nationality flooded the rue de Fleurus?

2. Cézanne's portrait of a woman inspired what Gertrude Stein work?

3. What nationality was Alice's father?

4. What was the name of the sculptor working on a figure of Gertrude Stein's nephew?

5. Gertrude had a large number of photographs depicting what historical event?

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