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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 Stein's1,000-page book?
(a) Three Lives
(b) Catcher in the Rye
(c) A Room of One's Own
(d) The Making of Americans

2. Who did Alice meet during her travels?
(a) Ralph Waldo Emerson
(b) Charlie Chaplin
(c) Gertrude Stein
(d) Winston Churchill

3. Gertrude Stein's brother discovered what unknown artist at Sagot's gallery?
(a) Picasso
(b) Monday
(c) Whistler
(d) Cézanne

4. One of the paintings by Matisse that Stein loved was titled, "La Femme au Chapeau." What is the English translation of "chapeau?"
(a) hat
(b) nude
(c) child
(d) flower

5. What was the name of the sculptor working on a figure of Gertrude Stein's nephew?
(a) Vollard
(b) Michelangelo Buonartti
(c) Kathleen Bruce
(d) Roche

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the cost of the Matisse painting of the woman and the dog?

2. What military position did Alice's great-great-uncle hold?

3. What was the former occupation of gallery owner, Sagot?

4. What was Alice's great passion?

5. What present did Stein give to Picasso?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Of the Americans that visited Paris, Picasso approved of very few. One woman of which Picasso approved was referred to as the Empress. Describe her.

4. Why was Hemingway in Europe initially?

5. Gertrude Stein left California when she was 17-years-old. The author describes the writer as having a drastic change of lifestyle when she moved to the East Coast. What was the main change in Gertrude's life at that time?

6. Describe the premise of Stein's novel "The Making of Americans."

7. Why is it unusual for Picasso to paint a portrait of Gertrude Stein?

8. What prompted Gertrude and her brother to split up their art collection?

9. Why did Alice neglect to pursue education or a career while in San Francisco?

10. What was the initial response to Gertrude Stein's "Three Lives?"

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