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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 wrote The Picture, in which he defined "dandyism"?
(a) Hubert Juin.
(b) Edmond de Goncourt.
(c) Oscar Wilde.
(d) Edgar Degas.

2. Around what year did Nadar take the first photographs of a hermaphrodite?
(a) 1860.
(b) 1850.
(c) 1840.
(d) 1870.

3. At least how many duels took place in Paris between 1895 and 1905?
(a) 150.
(b) 50.
(c) 300.
(d) 250.

4. Approximately how many people died in the fire at the Bazar de la Charite that is described in the narrative?
(a) 59.
(b) 79.
(c) 129.
(d) 210.

5. When was Jean Pozzi born?
(a) 1895.
(b) 1884.
(c) 1891.
(d) 1874.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is referred to in the book as "the poet-dandy's poet-dandy" (54)?

2. How is Edmond de Polignac posed in Le Cercle de la rue Royale?

3. What excuse did Dr. Pozzi have for his European excursion with Emma Fischoff in 1903?

4. When did Oscar Wilde meet Jean Lorrain?

5. Joseph Lister shoed that if all of his sterilization procedures were followed, the death rate of amputations fell from 50% to what percentage?

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