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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was the name of the sculptor working on a figure of Gertrude Stein's nephew?
(a) Vollard
(b) Roche
(c) Kathleen Bruce
(d) Michelangelo Buonartti

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

4. What nationality was Alice's father?
(a) German
(b) Polish
(c) French
(d) Norwegian

5. To what author does Alice offer assistance?
(a) Ernest Hemingway
(b) Henry James
(c) Ezra Pound
(d) Gertrude Stein

6. Some people thought Picasso resembled which famous American?
(a) Aaron Burr
(b) Ulysses S. Grant
(c) George Washington
(d) Abraham Lincoln

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

8. What was the price of Alice's lessons?
(a) $1.00 per day
(b) $.75 per lesson
(c) free
(d) $.50 per hour

9. What was the name of the confectioner who made honey cakes and nut candies?
(a) Parisian Chocolat
(b) Ravignan
(c) Nestlé
(d) Fouquet

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

11. What lessons did Alice want to receive?
(a) painting
(b) French
(c) writing
(d) cooking

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

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

14. Where did Alice choose as a travel destination?
(a) Argentina
(b) Paris
(c) Hawaii
(d) China

15. How does Alice refer to her mother?
(a) Boisterous
(b) Lonely
(c) Quiet
(d) Shy

Short Answer Questions

1. What present did Stein give to Picasso?

2. Which house guest was objected to by Helene?

3. What nationality was Picasso?

4. What famous school did Gertrude Stein attend?

5. What was the name of Matisse's first large composition?

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