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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What artist did Stein refer to as the Leonardo da Vinci of the movement?
(a) Renoir
(b) Picabia
(c) Ronnebeck
(d) Jacob

3. To whom did Stein give her first novel for review?
(a) Alice B. Toklas
(b) Lewis Bromfield
(c) Pablo Picasso
(d) Marguerite Matisse

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

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

6. Gertrude Stein family is described in what book?
(a) Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
(b) The Making of Americans
(c) Ada
(d) The Doppelgänger

7. Where was Gertrude Stein born?
(a) Maine
(b) California
(c) Vienna
(d) Pennsylvania

8. Who was the guest of honor at Fernande's banquet?
(a) Uhde
(b) Renoir
(c) Ronnebeck
(d) Rousseau

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

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

11. What item did Gertrude bring back from Rome that was later broken?
(a) vase
(b) plate
(c) typewriter
(d) jewelry

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

13. Gertrude had no talent for what art form?
(a) drawing
(b) singing
(c) dancing
(d) music

14. Alice describes her Saturday evenings in Paris to what object?
(a) single malt Scotch
(b) roller coaster
(c) volcano
(d) Kaleidoscope

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

Short Answer Questions

1. It was in 1914 the Picasso began to choose what kind of paint?

2. Where did the Steins move when they left Paris?

3. What war preceded the first world war?

4. Stein and Toklas decided to settle down temporarily, in what location?

5. Gertrude won an award for describing what object?

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