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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What item was not taken by Stein when visiting a military area?
(a) French matriculation papers
(b) bank deposit slip
(c) driver's license
(d) passport

2. The German ship, Fangturm, sold what items to the Mediterranean ports?
(a) socks and shoes
(b) guns and ammo
(c) coffee and tea
(d) pins and needles

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

4. Which of these items was not a feature at the Matisse house?
(a) flowers
(b) greenhouse
(c) statues
(d) fountains

5. Stein and Toklas decided to settle down temporarily, in what location?
(a) Firenze
(b) Prague
(c) Manchester
(d) Palma de Majorca

6. What was John Lane's favorite food in Provence?
(a) figs
(b) foie gras
(c) peaches
(d) escargot

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

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

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

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

11. Where was Stein's first European residence?
(a) Paris
(b) Prague
(c) Florence
(d) Vienna

12. Where did the Whitehead lived before moving to London?
(a) Pittsburgh
(b) Vienna
(c) Cambridge
(d) San Francisco

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

14. 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

15. What was the name of Picasso's second wife?
(a) Fernande
(b) Marie
(c) Eloise
(d) Eve

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of alarms were commonplace during this time?

2. What experiment did Gertrude perform and eventually write a paper about?

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

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

5. What was the name of Picasso's oldest friend?

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