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

2. When did Ephraim McDowell operate on Jane Crawford to remove an ovarian cyst?
(a) 1892.
(b) 1811.
(c) 1809.
(d) 1882.

3. Pushkin was killed in a duel with whom in 1837?
(a) Edward Vizetelly.
(b) Alexandre Laboulbene.
(c) Georges-Charles de Heeckeren.
(d) Edmond de Polignac.

4. When was Father and Son published?
(a) 1889.
(b) 1915.
(c) 1901.
(d) 1907.

5. Who said "Art is killed by taste" (57)?
(a) Hubert Juin.
(b) Edmond de Goncourt.
(c) James McNeill Whistler.
(d) Edgar Degas.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Dr. Pozzi's right hand in the painting by Sargent?

2. Who wrote the play Love is the Best Medicine?

3. Who painted the 1898 portrait of Jean Lorrain that is featured in the book?

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

5. When did Montesquiou and Polignac meet?

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