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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were the golden serving dishes shaped like?
(a) Bananas.
(b) Pebbles.
(c) Shells.
(d) Cockles.

2. What pose does Charles hold in Manet's painting?
(a) He is standing up in a boat flexing his muscles.
(b) He is kissing the hand of a young lady.
(c) He is sitting with his back to the painter.
(d) He is lying onthe grass smoking.

3. What was expected of Viktor and his friends?
(a) To create a Jewish state.
(b) To become artists.
(c) To take over the government.
(d) To marry and be successful.

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

5. What was the name of the party Dr. Karl Lueger founded?
(a) The Nazi Party.
(b) The Christian Social Parts.
(c) The Social National Party.
(d) The Green Party.

6. What was the name of the writer who famously supported Dreyfus?
(a) Zola.
(b) Proust.
(c) Goethe.
(d) Mann.

7. What is the title of Chapter 3?
(a) So Light, So Soft to the Touch.
(b) People are so Kind.
(c) A Penny From Heaven.
(d) A Mahout to Guide Her.

8. In which Russian city were Jews allowed to live?
(a) Odessa.
(b) Moscow.
(c) Kiev.
(d) St. Petersburg.

9. Where does the author say is the best place out side of Japan to see Japanese art?
(a) Moscow.
(b) Odessa.
(c) London.
(d) Paris.

10. What is the name of the woman whose Salon Charles visits?
(a) madame Beatrice.
(b) Miss Little.
(c) Miss Weaver.
(d) Madame Straus.

11. Why did Renoir say Charles was drawn to gaudy colors?
(a) He wasn't an artist.
(b) He was too rich to understand.
(c) He had working class roots.
(d) He was a Jew.

12. What kind of background did Wessell say a person should have to understand history better?
(a) A liberal background.
(b) A fascist background.
(c) A socialist background.
(d) A language background.

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

14. What did Charles give Viktor for a wedding present?
(a) The 267 netsuke.
(b) A Van Gogh painting.
(c) His gold watch.
(d) His estate.

15. What were Jews blamed for in the 1880s?
(a) Deaths of children.
(b) The plague.
(c) The financial problems.
(d) The Boer War.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was considered a Jewish sin?

2. Where was Charles' mistress from?

3. Which of the following painters did Charles correspond with?

4. What is the title of Chapter 7?

5. What does Edmund compare glass cases in museums to?

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