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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who did Alice referred to as being "a tormented and not particularly sympathetic character"?
(a) Juan Gris
(b) Erik Satie
(c) Victor Hugo
(d) Alfred Whitehead

2. Who refused to believe that there was going to be a war?
(a) Stein
(b) Americans in Europe
(c) Picasso
(d) Hungarians in Paris

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

4. What was the Stein's opinion of Dickens?
(a) she thought he was frightening
(b) she thought he was brilliant
(c) she thought he was overrated
(d) she thought he was without talent

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

6. Who was forced to leave the Stein apartment at the insistence of a spouse?
(a) Fernande
(b) Helene
(c) Mildred
(d) Amelie

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

8. Why was Gertrude going to travel to London in the summer?
(a) for the Queen's coronation
(b) to visit John Lane
(c) to get away from Paris
(d) to begin a book tour

9. What was the main problem with publishing "The Making of Americans?"
(a) subject matter
(b) required editing
(c) length
(d) timeliness

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

11. What experiment did Gertrude perform and eventually write a paper about?
(a) cloning
(b) automatic writing
(c) psychology of an expatriate
(d) chemical reactions of sugar

12. Stein claims that Cubism is a concept that can be attributed to...
(a) Portuguese
(b) Spaniards
(c) Danes
(d) Frenchman

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

14. What was the name of Picasso's oldest friend?
(a) Pietro
(b) Manolo
(c) Claude
(d) Braque

15. For what animal did Gertrude have a fondness?
(a) weasels
(b) goats
(c) pigs
(d) giraffes

Short Answer Questions

1. Who taught Gertrude Stein, how to drive?

2. What activity did Matisse perform every afternoon?

3. To whom does Alice refer to as the third genius?

4. What year did Gertrude's brother move away from Paris?

5. What item did Gertrude bring back from Rome that was later broken?

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