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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of Alice's favorite book?

2. What about Gertrude impressed Alice?

3. What was the name of the sculptor working on a figure of Gertrude Stein's nephew?

4. Cézanne's portrait of a woman inspired what Gertrude Stein work?

5. What item did Picasso withhold from his wife?

Short Essay Questions

1. Alice remembers a collection of photographs, kept by Gertrude Stein of the Americans the war. Why did these photographs upset Picasso?

2. 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?

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

4. Why was Hemingway in Europe initially?

5. How did Alice come to meet Gertrude Stein's brother and sister-in-law?

6. Why did the Whiteheads leave America?

7. What was the significance of the black renaissance plate?

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

9. What was referred to as "un petit Luxembourg?"

10. What piece of literature inspired Stein to write Toklas' autobiography?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

One of the first things Toklas noticed about the books in Stein's Paris apartment was that none of them was written in French. Even though Stein was fluent in French, she chose to have only English materials in the apartment. Explain Stein's reasons.

Essay Topic 2

Stein is very good at characterization of the main group of visitors to the Paris salon. Choose one of the following characters and explain how the descriptions in the book enhance the reader's image of the character.

1. Pablo Picasso

2. Gertrude Stein

3. Alice B. Toklas

4. Henri Matisse

Essay Topic 3

Mildred Aldrich was upset that Stein was not more readily recognized by the Americans yet professed that it was more important to be recognized by the British? What were Aldrich's reasons for the belief? How did that belief affect Stein's decisions?

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