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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 prison Dreyfus was sent to live in solitary confinement?
(a) Devil's Island.
(b) Port Island.
(c) Alcatraz.
(d) Brixton.

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

3. What was Renoir accused of by his peers?
(a) Inhumane painting.
(b) Forgery.
(c) Painting to order.
(d) Stealing their girlfriends.

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

5. What is the name of the book Herr Wessel made Viktor translate from English into German?
(a) The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
(b) The Wandering Jew.
(c) The Bible.
(d) The Guiness Book of World Records.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was elected mayor of Vienna in 1897?

2. What was Charles' nickname?

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

4. What was considered a Jewish sin?

5. What does the staircase in the medical insurance office curl up like?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why did Westerners view Japanese art as so different?

5. Why does Edmund think he has fallen for Charles?

6. Why was Japan a box of sweets for foreigners in the 1880s?

7. What problems were Charles and his relative having at the end of Chapter 20?

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

9. What did Drumont write about Jews in his anti-Semetic newspaper?

10. How did Charles spend his time in Paris?

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