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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What present did Stein give to Picasso?
(a) Wooden easel
(b) American newspapers
(c) Painter's palette
(d) Homemade baguettes

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

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

4. What artist was a friend of the photographer, Duret?
(a) Alfy Maurer
(b) James Whistler
(c) Henri Matisse
(d) Max Jacob

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

6. At what age did Alice stop practicing her music?
(a) 23
(b) 20
(c) 16
(d) 18

7. At what age did Alice develop a love of literature?
(a) 12
(b) 16
(c) 14
(d) 19

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

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

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

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

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

13. What was Alice's mother's name?
(a) Emilie
(b) Ava
(c) Edwina
(d) Edna

14. Gertrude Stein's brother had a fondness for what type of art?
(a) Renaissance
(b) Impressionist
(c) Egyptian
(d) Japanese

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What nationality flooded the rue de Fleurus?

2. What was the name of the heroine of the moment?

3. How old was Picasso when he painted the portrait of Gertrude Stein?

4. Where was Alice B. Toklas born?

5. Who did Alice meet during her travels?

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