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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 rumors are going around about Charles at the end of Chapter 9?
(a) He is homosexual.
(b) He is bisexual.
(c) He is an antisemite.
(d) He Jewish.

2. What does the author call an art?
(a) Star gazing.
(b) Autograph hunting.
(c) House watching.
(d) House sitting.

3. What does Edmund compare glass cases in museums to?
(a) Vases.
(b) Show windows.
(c) Mirrors.
(d) Coffins.

4. In which famous painting is Charles depicted?
(a) Venus in Furs.
(b) Luncheon of he Boating Party.
(c) Falling in Love.
(d) Nymheas.

5. What were Jews blamed for in the 1880s?
(a) The plague.
(b) The financial problems.
(c) Deaths of children.
(d) The Boer War.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was elected mayor of Vienna in 1897?

2. How does Edmund say the netsuke were different from most other art pieces?

3. What can Charles not get rid of while in Parisian society?

4. What country did Charles decide to travel to shortly after arriving in Paris?

5. Where were Renoir's portraits of Louise's two daughters exhibited?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was expected of Viktor and his friends?

2. What was the family's goal in terms of their grain business?

3. What evidence does de Waal to prove Charles was friends with all the great Paris artists of the late 19th century?

4. What problems were Charles and his relative having at the end of Chapter 20?

5. What did Drumont write about Jews in his anti-Semetic newspaper?

6. How does Edmund describe his family's palais?

7. Why was Odessa an important city for the Jews?

8. How did the Dreyfus affair effect Jewish people?

9. How does the author describe Proust?

10. How did Charles help Laforgue?

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