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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 183 - 226.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote Des Diaboliques?
(a) Hubert Juin.
(b) Edmond de Goncourt.
(c) Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly.
(d) Edgar Degas.

2. How old was Jane Crawford when she underwent the first ovariotomy?
(a) 41.
(b) 47.
(c) 32.
(d) 35.

3. When was Le Cercle de la rue Royale painted?
(a) 1902.
(b) 1868.
(c) 1879.
(d) 1855.

4. In 1882, Oscar Wilde gave John Singer Sargent a book of poetry by whom?
(a) Marie Colombier.
(b) Rennell Rodd.
(c) James Tissot.
(d) Edgar Degas.

5. When did Catherine Pozzi undergo an appendectomy?
(a) 1902.
(b) 1889.
(c) 1895.
(d) 1899.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Polignac when he traveled to London in 1885?

2. What transparently autobiographical novella did Catherine Pozzi publish in 1927?

3. Who said "Art is killed by taste" (57)?

4. When did Edmond de Polignac marry Winnaretta Singer?

5. Who was Sarah Bernhardt's friend turned denouncer that called her "an untuned piano, an Achilles vulnerable everywhere but in the right place" (146)?

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