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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) Alexandre Laboulbene.
(b) Emma Fischoff.
(c) Henry James.
(d) Joris-Karl Huysmans.

2. When did Oscar Wilde meet Jean Lorrain?
(a) 1885.
(b) 1901.
(c) 1893.
(d) 1899.

3. Who was the father of Leon Daudet?
(a) Edward Vizetelly.
(b) Claude Daudet.
(c) Alphonse Daudet.
(d) Oscar Daudet.

4. When did Dr. Pozzi receive his doctorate on fistulas of the upper rectum?
(a) 1882.
(b) 1873.
(c) 1891.
(d) 1879.

5. What Belgian poet said of Jean Lorrain, he "loved his age to the point of detestation" (68)?
(a) Hubert Juin.
(b) Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly.
(c) Antonio de la Gandara.
(d) Paul Duval.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When was Father and Son published?

3. Joseph Lister shoed that if all of his sterilization procedures were followed, the death rate of amputations fell from 50% to what percentage?

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

5. Who wrote Des Diaboliques?

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