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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. With whom did Alice live?
(a) Father and brother
(b) Two sisters
(c) Roommates
(d) Aunt and Uncle

3. How does Alice know if she has met a genius?
(a) Her nose itches
(b) Her toes tingle
(c) She hears a bell ring
(d) Her heart stops for a beat

4. Alice's grandmother was very fond of __________________.
(a) The ocean
(b) Travel
(c) Sunsets
(d) Music

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

6. What nationality flooded the rue de Fleurus?
(a) Hungarian
(b) French
(c) German
(d) Portuguese

7. Alice's relative raised a regiment for whom?
(a) Mussolini
(b) Napoleon
(c) Hannibal
(d) Hitler

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

9. Alice's father said, "if you must do a thing do it _____________."
(a) Thoroughly
(b) Consciously
(c) Intellectually
(d) Graciously

10. What artist became famous by painting a portrait of Fernande?
(a) Matisse
(b) Max Jacob
(c) Van Dongen
(d) Picasso

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

12. When it came to writing, what was Stein's passion?
(a) verbs
(b) sentences
(c) superlatives
(d) descriptions

13. What was the name of the Stein's housekeeper?
(a) Lily
(b) Fernande
(c) Sabrina
(d) Helene

14. What area of Paris is popular with artists?
(a) Place de la Concord
(b) Montmartre
(c) Tuilleries
(d) Latin Quarter

15. What year did Alice's grandfather go to California?
(a) 1862
(b) 1849
(c) 1929
(d) 1901

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the book that Gertrude Stein was having privately printed in 1907?

2. What nationality was Picasso?

3. Where did Alice choose as a travel destination?

4. What was Alice's great passion?

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

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