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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. To whom does Alice refer to as the third genius?
(a) Magritte Matisse
(b) Ronnebeck
(c) William Cook
(d) Alfred Whitehead

3. What was the Stein's opinion of Dickens?
(a) she thought he was without talent
(b) she thought he was overrated
(c) she thought he was brilliant
(d) she thought he was frightening

4. Gertrude Stein family is described in what book?
(a) Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
(b) Ada
(c) The Making of Americans
(d) The Doppelgänger

5. What was the name of Stein's and Toklas' mallorcan hound
(a) Polybe
(b) Pembroke
(c) Marchand
(d) Troy

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Stein's first European residence?

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

3. Alice describes her Saturday evenings in Paris to what object?

4. Where did Alice go with Gertrude and her brother?

5. What publication published Gertrude's paper?

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