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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) An Awkward Age
(b) A Room of One's Own
(c) Ada
(d) Three Lives

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

3. According to Matisse, Gertrude's world was a ________________.
(a) Tragedy
(b) Theater
(c) Joke
(d) Stage

4. Who did Alice meet during her travels?
(a) Ralph Waldo Emerson
(b) Charlie Chaplin
(c) Gertrude Stein
(d) Winston Churchill

5. What was Alice's great passion?
(a) Flying
(b) Music
(c) Archery
(d) Tapestry

6. What event preceded the fire?
(a) Earthquake
(b) Tornado
(c) Hailstorm
(d) Tsunami

7. What event caused Alice to lapse with her music?
(a) San Francisco fire
(b) Her mother's death
(c) Earthquake
(d) College

8. The Matisse apartment had a beautiful view of what Paris landmark?
(a) Notre Dame
(b) The Arc de Triomphe
(c) Ile de la Cité
(d) The Louvre

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

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

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

12. Gertrude Stein's brother discovered what unknown artist at Sagot's gallery?
(a) Whistler
(b) Cézanne
(c) Monday
(d) Picasso

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

14. What was the career choice of Matisse before he discovered painting?
(a) attorney
(b) doctor
(c) architect
(d) pharmacist

15. What item did Picasso withhold from his wife?
(a) jewelry
(b) money
(c) comics
(d) freedom

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Alice refer to her mother?

2. Which house guest was objected to by Helene?

3. What activity did Stein partake in every afternoon?

4. What is the English translation of "un coup de foudre?"

5. What year did Alice's grandfather go to California?

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