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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a chronic problem in Paris?
(a) crime
(b) unemployment
(c) homelessness
(d) prostitution

2. What was the name of the book that Gertrude Stein was having privately printed in 1907?
(a) The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
(b) Three Lives
(c) The Making of Americans
(d) An Awkward Age

3. Which of these people is not on Alice's list of geniuses?
(a) Pablo Picasso
(b) Alfred Whitehead
(c) Clara Schumann
(d) Gertrude Stein

4. What object was often taken to the cinema with Germaine Pichot?
(a) armed bodyguards
(b) bottles of wine
(c) dogs
(d) armchair

5. Where was Alice B. Toklas born?
(a) Paris
(b) New York
(c) San Antonio
(d) San Francisco

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Alice's mother's name?

2. According to Matisse, Gertrude's world was a ________________.

3. What author did Alice most admire?

4. Which was not a passion for Fernande?

5. How does Alice know if she has met a genius?

(see the answer key)

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