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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

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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. What was the name of the large exposition building?
(a) Bastille
(b) Versailles
(c) Grand Palais
(d) Musée de l'Orangerie

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

3. What is the English translation of "un coup de foudre?"
(a) A political arrest
(b) A collection of paintings
(c) Civil unrest
(d) Love at first sight

4. What artist was a friend of the photographer, Duret?
(a) Max Jacob
(b) James Whistler
(c) Henri Matisse
(d) Alfy Maurer

5. Gertrude Stein's brother discovered what unknown artist at Sagot's gallery?
(a) Picasso
(b) Whistler
(c) Monday
(d) Cézanne

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a chronic problem in Paris?

2. What event preceded the fire?

3. With whom did Alice live?

4. Which of these things is not among Alice's hobbies?

5. What year did Alice's grandfather go to California?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Harry Gibb push Stein to publish a big book that people could sink their teeth into?

2. What is the difference of opinion in between the Germans and the Spaniards regarding bullfighting?

3. Why did the Whiteheads leave America?

4. How did Alice come to meet Gertrude Stein's brother and sister-in-law?

5. Why was Gertrude grateful to have failed to receive her degree from Johns Hopkins?

6. How does Gertrude Stein discover the works of Cézanne?

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

8. What prompted Max Jacob to dub the early 1900s "the heroic age of Cubism?

9. What was the initial purpose for Stein and Toklas to go to London?

10. How had Matisse's life changed since he arrived in Paris?

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