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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. How old was Matisse when he received the first large offer from the spring salon?
(a) 42
(b) 31
(c) 35
(d) 27

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

3. What was the name of Alice's favorite book?
(a) The Awkward Age
(b) Wuthering Heights
(c) Mansfield Park
(d) Ada in Geography

4. What author did Alice most admire?
(a) Thomas Hardy
(b) Henry James
(c) T.S. Eliot
(d) Gertrude Stein

5. What artist became famous by painting a portrait of Fernande?
(a) Picasso
(b) Van Dongen
(c) Matisse
(d) Max Jacob

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom did Alice live?

2. Who would supply the lessons to Alice?

3. Gertrude had a large number of photographs depicting what historical event?

4. What was the price of Alice's lessons?

5. What was the name of the large exposition building?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why was it difficult for the Picassos to decide where their son would be baptized?

6. When Alice first goes to the starting this apartment, she is introduced to Helene, the Stein's housekeeper. What are Alice's impressions of Helene?

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

8. What caused Alice to throw herself into literature after having spent so much time studying music?

9. In 1913, Helene left of the Stein household. What prompted the departure?

10. What about Picasso's paintings was considered to be entirely Spanish?

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