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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 46 - 86.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Antoine de Riverol die?
(a) 1815.
(b) 1825.
(c) 1801.
(d) 1895.

2. How old was Samuel Pozzi when his son Jacques was born?
(a) 45.
(b) 40.
(c) 55.
(d) 50.

3. The author quotes Samuel Pozzi in the book, saying that one of his best quotations is in his treatise on gynecology. Pozzi stated, "Chauvanism is one of the forms of" what (49)?
(a) "Brutality."
(b) "Hatred."
(c) "Abuse."
(d) "Ignoranice."

4. At what museum did the author first see the painting that inspired this book?
(a) The Whitney Museum of American Art.
(b) The National Portrait Gallery.
(c) The Jeffrey Parks Art Gallery.
(d) The Guggenheim Museum.

5. Who wrote The Gentle Art of Making Enemies?
(a) Edmond de Goncourt.
(b) James McNeill Whistler.
(c) Hubert Juin.
(d) Georges Vanor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Gabriel Yturri from?

2. Whose portrait of Montesquiou appeared on the 1967 cover of Against Nature?

3. At least how many duels took place in Paris between 1895 and 1905?

4. When did Samuel Pozzi restore the family name to "Pozzi" from "Pozzy"?

5. Who said "Art is killed by taste" (57)?

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