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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What was the name of Stein's and Toklas' mallorcan hound
(a) Troy
(b) Polybe
(c) Pembroke
(d) Marchand

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

6. Who is John Lane?
(a) friend
(b) professor
(c) writer
(d) publisher

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

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

9. What was Ronnebeck's profession?
(a) vagrant
(b) sculptor
(c) politician
(d) professor

10. What was the name of the college Gertrude first attended?
(a) Vassar
(b) Oxford
(c) Radcliffe
(d) UCLA

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

12. What activity did Matisse perform every afternoon?
(a) drinking wine by the Lake
(b) sketching in the nude
(c) walking the family's dogs
(d) taking a nap in the sun

13. It was in 1914 the Picasso began to choose what kind of paint?
(a) recycled
(b) oil
(c) acrylic
(d) ripolin

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

15. The Steins moved again when Gertrude was three-years-old. To what city did they transfer?
(a) Lucerne
(b) Amsterdam
(c) Venice
(d) Paris

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Stein and Toklas have to confirm their identity when picking up the money?

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

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

4. What artist did Stein refer to as the Leonardo da Vinci of the movement?

5. What was the occupation of the couple's military godson?

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