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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What nationality flooded the rue de Fleurus?
(a) Hungarian
(b) French
(c) Portuguese
(d) German

4. Which was not a passion for Fernande?
(a) perfume
(b) furs
(c) music
(d) hats

5. Which artist is not mentioned in Chapter 2?
(a) Rousseau
(b) Seurat
(c) Botticelli
(d) Matisse

Short Answer Questions

1. Who would supply the lessons to Alice?

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

3. What about Gertrude impressed Alice?

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

5. Alice's relative raised a regiment for whom?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was Helene surprised when she returned to the Stein apartment after her son had died?

2. Why does Gertrude Stein spend two years living in Baltimore?

3. What caused Alice's grandfather to leave Paris?

4. What caused the turbulent nature of the Picassos' relationship?

5. What caused Alice to throw herself into literature after having spent so much time studying music?

6. Many people, mostly painters and writers, flocked to the Stein apartment. Why was 27 rue de Fleurus so popular?

7. Of the Americans that visited Paris, Picasso approved of very few. One woman of which Picasso approved was referred to as the Empress. Describe her.

8. Why is it unusual for Picasso to paint a portrait of Gertrude Stein?

9. Why did Toklas say it was with "infinite relief England came into the war"?

10. How did Stein respond when Mrs. Bishop asked the writer to prompt the French government to create a Pondichery?

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