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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 incident changed Alice's life?
(a) Earthquake
(b) Arrival of Gertrude's brother
(c) World War I
(d) She almost drowned

2. The brother of what famous dancer rented an atelier in the rue de Fleurus?
(a) Twyla Tharp
(b) Isadora Duncan
(c) Mikhail Baryshnikov
(d) Gypsy Lee Rose

3. Which was not a passion for Fernande?
(a) hats
(b) music
(c) furs
(d) perfume

4. Who was the inspiration for La Femme un Chapeau?
(a) Amelie Matisse
(b) Fernande Picasso
(c) Gertrude Stein
(d) Alice B. Toklas

5. At what age did Alice stop practicing her music?
(a) 23
(b) 20
(c) 16
(d) 18

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Gertrude's brother living when he learned about Cézanne?

2. At what age did Alice develop a love of literature?

3. What lessons did Alice want to receive?

4. What nationality was Alice's father?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Harry Gibb push Stein to publish a big book that people could sink their teeth into?

2. 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?

3. Why did it not matter to Gertrude Stein what language her literature was printed in?

4. What is Gertrude Stein's brother's theory about the masking of unemployment in Paris?

5. Describe Gertrude Stein's afternoon ritual.

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

7. What caused Alice's grandfather to leave Paris?

8. How did Stein and Toklas resolve their growing need for money?

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

10. The author claims that Alice's father came from Polish patriotic stock. What in Alice's history causes the author to make such a statement?

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