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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was Montesquiou when he traveled to London in 1885?
(a) 30.
(b) 35.
(c) 40.
(d) 38.

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

3. When did Robert Caze fight in a duel with Felicien Champsaur?
(a) 1886.
(b) 1902.
(c) 1892.
(d) 1879.

4. Who was put on trial for having translated Emile Zola's La Terre to English?
(a) Edward Vizetelly.
(b) Edmond de Polignac.
(c) Joris-Karl Huysmans.
(d) Alexandre Laboulbene.

5. How was Samuel Pozzi injured in the Franco-Prussian War?
(a) He broke his leg in a trench.
(b) A horse-drawn ambulance ran over his ankle.
(c) His ribs were broken when he fell off a cliff.
(d) He was shot.

Short Answer Questions

1. During what years did Montesquiou share his life with Gabriel Yturri?

2. Around what year did Nadar take the first photographs of a hermaphrodite?

3. How old was Samuel Pozzi when his son Jacques was born?

4. When were many Pozzis burned to death for their faith in the Protestant temple of Teglio?

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

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