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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. At what age did Gertrude attempt to write a Shakespearean drama?
(a) 17
(b) 13
(c) 8
(d) 12

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

11. What kept Stein from practicing medicine?
(a) the war began
(b) she never received her degree
(c) she decided to pursue psychology
(d) her father died

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. While in medical school, Gertrude was well-known for...

3. During this time who became Picasso's closest friend?

4. For what animal did Gertrude have a fondness?

5. Where was Stein's first European residence?

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