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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who received the first Edmond de Polignac Prize in 1911?
(a) Walter de la Mare.
(b) Joris-Karl Huysmans.
(c) Marie Colombier.
(d) Edward Vizetelly.

2. When was Le Cercle de la rue Royale painted?
(a) 1879.
(b) 1868.
(c) 1855.
(d) 1902.

3. How much money did the dozen members of the gentlemen's club pay to be included in Le Cercle de la rue Royale?
(a) 3,000 francs.
(b) 500 francs.
(c) 2,000 francs.
(d) 1,000 francs.

4. When was the Byzantine emperor Phocas decapitated?
(a) 1695.
(b) 1717.
(c) 1610.
(d) 1650.

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) 10%.
(c) 15%.
(d) 20$.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Belgian poet said of Jean Lorrain, he "loved his age to the point of detestation" (68)?

2. What was Emma Fischoff's birth name?

3. When was Antoine de Riverol born?

4. Who wrote the opera Patience?

5. How old was Catherine Pozzi in December of 1903?

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