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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Cézanne's portrait of a woman inspired what Gertrude Stein work?
(a) Three Lives
(b) An Awkward Age
(c) Ada
(d) A Room of One's Own

2. At what time of day did Gertrude Stein typically begin to work?
(a) 11:00 p.m.
(b) 4:00 a.m.
(c) 2:00 p.m.
(d) 12:00 p.m.

3. What was the former occupation of gallery owner, Sagot?
(a) circus clown
(b) doctor
(c) painter
(d) yachtsman

4. At what age did Alice stop practicing her music?
(a) 20
(b) 18
(c) 16
(d) 23

5. At what age did Alice develop a love of literature?
(a) 14
(b) 12
(c) 19
(d) 16

6. What is difficult for Alice to find?
(a) Sheet music
(b) Mentor
(c) Temperate climate
(d) Husband

7. What was the name of one of the top two large spring salons?
(a) Place de la Concord
(b) Tuilleries
(c) Champ-de-Mars
(d) Musee de Montmartre

8. What is the English translation of "un coup de foudre?"
(a) Love at first sight
(b) A political arrest
(c) A collection of paintings
(d) Civil unrest

9. Duret commented to an artist that there are two kinds of art. There is art, and then there is ___________________.
(a) official art
(b) Cubist art
(c) pointless art
(d) commercial art

10. What was the name of Stein's1,000-page book?
(a) A Room of One's Own
(b) The Making of Americans
(c) Catcher in the Rye
(d) Three Lives

11. What was the name of Matisse's first large composition?
(a) Mademoiselle Stein
(b) Alicia
(c) Bonheur de Vivre
(d) Fauvre

12. What famous school did Gertrude Stein attend?
(a) Sorbonne
(b) Columbia
(c) Johns Hopkins
(d) Oxford

13. What was Picasso's first name?
(a) Claude
(b) Fernando
(c) Pablo
(d) Pieter

14. The brother of what famous dancer rented an atelier in the rue de Fleurus?
(a) Isadora Duncan
(b) Twyla Tharp
(c) Mikhail Baryshnikov
(d) Gypsy Lee Rose

15. What activity did Stein partake in every afternoon?
(a) writing poetry
(b) drinking tea with friends
(c) walking around Paris
(d) playing with the dog

Short Answer Questions

1. What about Gertrude impressed Alice?

2. What author did Alice most admire?

3. The Matisse apartment had a beautiful view of what Paris landmark?

4. What was the name of Alice's favorite book?

5. One of the paintings by Matisse that Stein loved was titled, "La Femme au Chapeau." What is the English translation of "chapeau?"

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