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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 183 - 226.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What excuse did Dr. Pozzi have for his European excursion with Emma Fischoff in 1903?
(a) A business meeting in Paris.
(b) A medical convention in Oslo.
(c) A gynecological conference in Athens.
(d) A gynecological conference in Bern.

2. When was Within a Budding Grove published?
(a) 1889.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1909.
(d) 1911.

3. When did Edmond de Goncourt die?
(a) 1893.
(b) 1896.
(c) 1902.
(d) 1888.

4. Who was Sarah Bernhardt's friend turned denouncer that called her "an untuned piano, an Achilles vulnerable everywhere but in the right place" (146)?
(a) Marie Colombier.
(b) Oscar Wilde.
(c) Emma Fischoff.
(d) Walter de la Mare.

5. Who wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray?
(a) Joris-Karl Huysmans.
(b) Edward Vizetelly.
(c) Alexandre Laboulbene.
(d) Oscar Wilde.

Short Answer Questions

1. What transparently autobiographical novella did Catherine Pozzi publish in 1927?

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

3. When was the Byzantine emperor Phocas decapitated?

4. At what museum did the author first see the painting that inspired this book?

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

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