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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 87 - 133.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was Jules-Hippolyte Percher when he was killed?
(a) 37.
(b) 42.
(c) 32.
(d) 29.

2. Who was Pozzi's cousin that was 20 years his senior and a well-known society doctor whose patients including the ruling family of Napoleon III?
(a) Georges-Charles de Heeckeren.
(b) Alexandre Laboulbene.
(c) Edmond de Polignac.
(d) Jean Lorrain.

3. What is defined in the book as "a collection of holes tied together with string" (101)?
(a) Print journalism.
(b) Biography.
(c) History.
(d) Mass media.

4. When did Ephraim McDowell operate on Jane Crawford to remove an ovarian cyst?
(a) 1892.
(b) 1882.
(c) 1811.
(d) 1809.

5. Who said "Art is killed by taste" (57)?
(a) James McNeill Whistler.
(b) Edgar Degas.
(c) Hubert Juin.
(d) Edmond de Goncourt.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the opera Patience?

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

3. When was Father and Son published?

4. Who wrote The Earth and the Biblical Story of Its Creation?

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

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