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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 Liberty and Co. open in London?
(a) 1875.
(b) 1890.
(c) 1882.
(d) 1870.

2. Whose portrait of Montesquiou appeared on the 1967 cover of Against Nature?
(a) Picasso's.
(b) Dali's.
(c) Sargent's.
(d) Boldini's.

3. How old was Leon Daudet when he fought his first duel?
(a) 35.
(b) 40.
(c) 25.
(d) 30.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who fought in a duel with Catulle Mendes in 1901?

2. Pushkin was killed in a duel with whom in 1837?

3. Who was put on trial for having translated Emile Zola's La Terre to English?

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

5. How was Samuel Pozzi injured in the Franco-Prussian War?

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