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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did people say the Japanese created small artwork?
(a) They are small people.
(b) They like to wear their artwork as necklaces.
(c) They had to hide from the authorities.
(d) It is part of their tradition.

2. What illness did Jules die from?
(a) Mumps.
(b) Small pox.
(c) Tuberculosis.
(d) Influenza.

3. Which of Charles' brothers was a playboy?
(a) Ignace.
(b) Jules.
(c) Ronnie.
(d) Rupert.

4. Where does the author say was the best place to buy Japanese art?
(a) Russia.
(b) Japan.
(c) USA.
(d) France.

5. Which famous person found the Ringstrasse enchanting?
(a) Hitler.
(b) Stalin.
(c) Freud.
(d) Proust.

6. In which art gallery does Monet's Les bains de la Grenouillere now hang?
(a) The London National Gallery.
(b) The Berlin National Gallery.
(c) The Louvre.
(d) Guggenheim.

7. What was the name of the artist that Charles wrote about?
(a) Adolf Hitler.
(b) Thomas Mann.
(c) Albert Durer.
(d) Peter Piper.

8. In which city did Viktor live?
(a) Paris.
(b) Dublin.
(c) Vienna.
(d) Berlin.

9. What was Dreyfus accused of?
(a) Murder.
(b) Adultery.
(c) Treachery.
(d) Stealing.

10. What did Viktor and his wife, Emmy, inherit?
(a) The Ephrussi Bank.
(b) The netsukes.
(c) Ringstrass.
(d) The Rothschild mansion.

11. Which of Charles' engravings does Edmund wonder if visitors to his house saw?
(a) The lit de parade
(b) The English Patient.
(c) The uno la.
(d) The Nuovo Rebeccani.

12. What does the author call an art?
(a) House watching.
(b) House sitting.
(c) Star gazing.
(d) Autograph hunting.

13. Who said he would protect the the Viennese Jews?
(a) Winston Churchill.
(b) Karl Lueger.
(c) The Emperor.
(d) Josef Stalin.

14. Where was Charles' mistress from?
(a) China.
(b) Japan.
(c) Russia.
(d) France.

15. Which does the author state the one thing Emmy was very good at?
(a) Telling stories.
(b) History.
(c) Playing golf.
(d) Geography.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who ordered the Ring to be be built?

2. What was the name of the prison Dreyfus was sent to live in solitary confinement?

3. What material were the netsuke rates made from?

4. Where did Charles find Jules a job?

5. What was the name of the area in Paris the Ephrussi family moved to?

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