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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What about Gertrude impressed Alice?
(a) Height
(b) Her short stories
(c) Her voice
(d) Worldliness

3. Whose relatives returned to California?
(a) Mr. Toklas'
(b) Napoleon's
(c) Charlie Chaplin's
(d) Gertrude Stein's

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What author did Alice most admire?

2. Which house guest was objected to by Helene?

3. At what age did Alice stop practicing her music?

4. What was the name of the street on which the Picassos lived?

5. Which was not a passion for Fernande?

(see the answer key)

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