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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote the novel A Rebours?
(a) Joris-Karl Huysmans.
(b) Henry James.
(c) Alexandre Laboulbene.
(d) Emma Fischoff.

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

3. When did Jean Lorrain publish Monsieur de Phocas?
(a) 1892.
(b) 1912.
(c) 1901.
(d) 1905.

4. When did Leon Daudet fight his first duel?
(a) 1912.
(b) 1889.
(c) 1885.
(d) 1902.

5. Who painted The Beguiling of Merlin?
(a) Henry James.
(b) Alexandre Laboulbene.
(c) Emma Fischoff.
(d) Edward Burne-Jones.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. Who was Samuel Pozzi's grandfather?

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

5. When did Montesquiou and Polignac meet?

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