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

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

3. What was the only place in the world that had a bigger population of Jews than Vienna?
(a) St. Petersburgh.
(b) Israel.
(c) New York.
(d) Odessa.

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

5. What was the occupation of Jules Laforgue?
(a) A novelist.
(b) A lawyer.
(c) A doctor.
(d) A poet.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the author think Charles may have bought the netsukes to please?

2. Which does the author state the one thing Emmy was very good at?

3. Which Proust character was Charles said to be the model for?

4. What pose does Charles hold in Manet's painting?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How did anti-Jewish feeling in France effect Charles?

2. What was the family's goal in terms of their grain business?

3. What was Sichel's view of Japan?

4. What evidence does de Waal to prove Charles was friends with all the great Paris artists of the late 19th century?

5. What does Edmund think was strange about Charles' relationship with the Impressionist painters?

6. How does Edmund describe his family's palais?

7. How does Edmund imagine the house was like when Charles and his brothers lived there?

8. How did the Dreyfus affair effect Jewish people?

9. How did Charles live his life differently from his brothers?

10. How does the author describe Proust?

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