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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 133 - 183.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author say bad smells are in the narrative?
(a) Sad memories.
(b) Good reminders.
(c) Regrets.
(d) Signs of warning.

2. When did Paul Pozzi marry Miriam Ashcroft?
(a) 1876.
(b) 1885.
(c) 1888.
(d) 1895.

3. Who was Dr. Samuel Pozzi's 1992 biographer?
(a) Marie Colombier.
(b) Emma Fischoff.
(c) Walter de la Mare.
(d) Claude Vanderpooten.

4. Who is referred to in the book as "the poet-dandy's poet-dandy" (54)?
(a) Baudelaire.
(b) Hubert Juin.
(c) Edmond de Goncourt.
(d) Georges Vanor.

5. Joseph Lister shoed that if all of his sterilization procedures were followed, the death rate of amputations fell from 50% to what percentage?
(a) 40%.
(b) 15%.
(c) 20$.
(d) 10%.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Jean Loorain's first novel?

2. What term is used to describe a surgery "in which healthy (or only mildly affected) ovaries were removed in order to provoke an artificial menopause and thus cure nervous troubles of various kinds" (140)?

3. When did Count Robert de Montesquiou arrive in America for a four-city engagement?

4. Where was Emma Fischoff born?

5. With what engraver did Jeanne Jacquemin live in Sevres?

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