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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 87 - 133.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The author quotes Samuel Pozzi in the book, saying that one of his best quotations is in his treatise on gynecology. Pozzi stated, "Chauvanism is one of the forms of" what (49)?
(a) "Brutality."
(b) "Abuse."
(c) "Ignoranice."
(d) "Hatred."

3. What Belgian poet said of Jean Lorrain, he "loved his age to the point of detestation" (68)?
(a) Antonio de la Gandara.
(b) Paul Duval.
(c) Hubert Juin.
(d) Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly.

4. Pushkin was killed in a duel with whom in 1837?
(a) Georges-Charles de Heeckeren.
(b) Edmond de Polignac.
(c) Edward Vizetelly.
(d) Alexandre Laboulbene.

5. When did Ephraim McDowell operate on Jane Crawford to remove an ovarian cyst?
(a) 1811.
(b) 1809.
(c) 1892.
(d) 1882.

Short Answer Questions

1. Around what year did Nadar take the first photographs of a hermaphrodite?

2. When did Paul Pozzi marry Miriam Ashcroft?

3. When did Samuel Pozzi restore the family name to "Pozzi" from "Pozzy"?

4. When did Edmond de Goncourt die?

5. What did Winnaretta Singer's fortune come from?

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