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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. According to Stein, only Americans and Spaniards can understand what concept?
(a) abstraction
(b) Impressionism
(c) Surrealism
(d) tesselations

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

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

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

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

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

14. What kind of vehicle was being sent to Stein and Toklas?
(a) Alfa Romeo
(b) Ford truck
(c) Edsel
(d) Peugeot

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Matisse buy a house?

2. What does Stein feel in regard to intellectual people?

3. Who was the first person to quote Gertrude Stein's work to her?

4. According to Stein Germans lack what ability?

5. What writer did Stein refer to as "the greatest of the Victorians?"

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