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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Alice go with Gertrude and her brother?
(a) Trieste
(b) Florence
(c) Padua
(d) Fiesole

2. Where did Gertrude often spend the summer months?
(a) the ocean
(b) San Francisco
(c) Europe
(d) house in the country

3. What year did Gertrude's brother move away from Paris?
(a) 1914
(b) 1909
(c) 1912
(d) 1906

4. During this time who became Picasso's closest friend?
(a) Matisse
(b) Braque
(c) Alice
(d) Gris

5. In what year did Alice go to Paris?
(a) 1909
(b) 1903
(c) 1907
(d) 1912

6. How did Alfy describe Paris after the battle of the Marne?
(a) like pale absinthe
(b) like an angry tornado
(c) like a blink in time
(d) like a colicky child

7. To whom does Alice refer to as the third genius?
(a) William Cook
(b) Ronnebeck
(c) Alfred Whitehead
(d) Magritte Matisse

8. What trait did Stein profess to have?
(a) fortitude
(b) cowardice
(c) inertia
(d) ambition

9. What war preceded the first world war?
(a) War of 1812
(b) Spanish Civil War
(c) French and Indian war
(d) Russian Japanese war

10. While in medical school, Gertrude was well-known for...
(a) being disrespectful to professors
(b) original scientific work
(c) excelling in anatomy
(d) cutting class

11. Where did the Stein family settle on the West Coast?
(a) Oakland
(b) Salt Lake City
(c) Seattle
(d) Reno

12. According to Stein, what kind of country is Germany?
(a) medieval
(b) prejudiced
(c) culture
(d) scintillating

13. Where did the Steins go when they returned to America?
(a) Texas
(b) Rhode Island
(c) Boston
(d) New York

14. What kind of alarms were commonplace during this time?
(a) fire drill
(b) atomic bomb
(c) curfew
(d) Zeppelin

15. Fernande refers to Picasso as...
(a) an undiscovered genius
(b) a precocious child
(c) a dirty old man
(d) an intellectual wit

Short Answer Questions

1. Gertrude won an award for describing what object?

2. Who did Alice referred to as being "a tormented and not particularly sympathetic character"?

3. Who was the guest of honor at Fernande's banquet?

4. What was Ronnebeck's profession?

5. What was the name of Stein's first publisher?

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