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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of these people is not on Alice's list of geniuses?
(a) Pablo Picasso
(b) Alfred Whitehead
(c) Clara Schumann
(d) Gertrude Stein

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

3. Which artist is not mentioned in Chapter 2?
(a) Seurat
(b) Rousseau
(c) Matisse
(d) Botticelli

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

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

6. Who painted a portrait of Gertrude Stein?
(a) Monet
(b) Picasso
(c) Matisse
(d) Cézanne

7. Stein had a weakness for what types of objects?
(a) sturdy
(b) breakable
(c) green
(d) metal

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

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

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

11. What was the name of the street on which the Picassos lived?
(a) rue Ravignan
(b) rue de Fleurus
(c) rue d'Avron
(d) avenue Foch

12. What was the name of the heroine of the moment?
(a) Monique
(b) Evelyn
(c) Claudette
(d) Marie

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

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

15. What was the name of Alice's favorite book?
(a) The Awkward Age
(b) Wuthering Heights
(c) Mansfield Park
(d) Ada in Geography

Short Answer Questions

1. What military position did Alice's great-great-uncle hold?

2. Where was Gertrude's brother living when he learned about Cézanne?

3. Gertrude Stein's brother discovered what unknown artist at Sagot's gallery?

4. Picasso painted a famous scene with friends gathered around what object?

5. Alice had no desire to __________________.

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