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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What writer did Stein refer to as "the greatest of the Victorians?"
(a) Thomas Hardy
(b) Anthony Trollope
(c) Samuel Beckett
(d) Henry James

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

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

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

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

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

13. To whom does Alice refer to as the third genius?
(a) Alfred Whitehead
(b) Ronnebeck
(c) Magritte Matisse
(d) William Cook

14. Which is not one of Gertrude's favorite saints?
(a) St. Ignatius Loyola
(b) St. Francis
(c) St. Theresa
(d) St. Christopher

15. According to Stein Germans lack what ability?
(a) common sense
(b) intelligent thought
(c) organization
(d) laughter

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Stein, what kind of country is Germany?

2. What kind of vehicle was being sent to Stein and Toklas?

3. What was John Lane's favorite food in Provence?

4. Where did the Stein family settle on the West Coast?

5. Stein claims that Cubism is a concept that can be attributed to...

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