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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of the confectioner who made honey cakes and nut candies?
(a) Fouquet
(b) Ravignan
(c) Parisian Chocolat
(d) Nestlé

2. What event caused Alice to lapse with her music?
(a) San Francisco fire
(b) Earthquake
(c) College
(d) Her mother's death

3. What was the name of the Stein's housekeeper?
(a) Sabrina
(b) Lily
(c) Helene
(d) Fernande

4. What is a chronic problem in Paris?
(a) homelessness
(b) unemployment
(c) prostitution
(d) crime

5. What was the cost of the Matisse painting of the woman and the dog?
(a) 250 francs
(b) 1000 francs
(c) 100 francs
(d) 500 francs

Short Answer Questions

1. Which artist is not mentioned in Chapter 2?

2. What was the name of one of the top two large spring salons?

3. Of what comic was Picasso fond?

4. At what age did Alice stop practicing her music?

5. What was the name of the heroine of the moment?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the initial purpose for Stein and Toklas to go to London?

2. Why does Gertrude Stein spend two years living in Baltimore?

3. What possessions of Mrs. Stein's were of great fascination to Alice? Why?

4. What was the impetus to convince Alice to travel to Europe for the first time?

5. Although one of the reasons Mr. Stein took his children to Europe was to receive a European education, he changed his mind regarding language when the family moved to California. Why?

6. Why did they Toklas say that war was not weighing heavily on people's minds in London?

7. What most impressed Alice about her first meeting with Gertrude Stein in Paris?

8. What inspired Picasso to devote himself to Cubism?

9. Why did it upset Mildred Aldrich to read Who's Who in America?

10. Why is it difficult for Alice to relate to her family's military service?

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