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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How old was Picasso when he painted the portrait of Gertrude Stein?
(a) 35
(b) 24
(c) 19
(d) 26

4. Which house guest was objected to by Helene?
(a) Picasso
(b) Cézanne
(c) Alice
(d) Matisse

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

6. One of the paintings by Matisse that Stein loved was titled, "La Femme au Chapeau." What is the English translation of "chapeau?"
(a) hat
(b) child
(c) flower
(d) nude

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

8. What was the name of the picture dealer in Paris that handled Cézanne's work?
(a) Laffitte
(b) Duret
(c) Loeser
(d) Vollard

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the cost of the Matisse painting of the woman and the dog?

2. What was Picasso's first name?

3. What present did Stein give to Picasso?

4. What about Gertrude impressed Alice?

5. Who would supply the lessons to Alice?

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