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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Matisse buy a house?
(a) Clamart
(b) Provence
(c) Montmartre
(d) rue de Fleurus

2. In what city did the couple have difficulties getting their passports approved?
(a) Budapest
(b) Moscow
(c) Madrid
(d) Berlin

3. What was the occupation of the couple's military godson?
(a) pilot
(b) teacher
(c) mechanic
(d) butcher

4. Who was the first person to quote Gertrude Stein's work to her?
(a) Ronnebeck
(b) Roche
(c) Manolo
(d) Uhde

5. What item was not taken by Stein when visiting a military area?
(a) French matriculation papers
(b) bank deposit slip
(c) passport
(d) driver's license

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

7. According to Stein, only Americans and Spaniards can understand what concept?
(a) Surrealism
(b) tesselations
(c) abstraction
(d) Impressionism

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

9. Who taught Gertrude Stein, how to drive?
(a) Alice B. Toklas
(b) John Lane
(c) Mrs. Penfold
(d) William Cook

10. What European city did Stein take a disliking to upon her first visit?
(a) London
(b) Milan
(c) Provence
(d) Munich

11. What was the name of Stein's first publisher?
(a) Alfred Whitehead
(b) David Starr Jordan
(c) Alfred Steglitz
(d) John Lane

12. What maneuver in driving was difficult for Gertrude?
(a) backing up
(b) three-point turn
(c) parallel parking
(d) driving in snow

13. What is the English translation of "Nullement en danger ne t'inquiete pas?"
(a) It is the quiet ones that are dangerous
(b) There is a danger of running out of tuna fish
(c) She suffers in quiet danger
(d) That there is no danger, don't worry

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

15. Where was Stein's first European residence?
(a) Florence
(b) Vienna
(c) Prague
(d) Paris

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Stein Germans lack what ability?

2. For what animal did Gertrude have a fondness?

3. Why was Gertrude going to travel to London in the summer?

4. Gertrude won an award for describing what object?

5. What does Stein feel in regard to intellectual people?

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