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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 133 - 183.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Emma Fischoff's birth name?
(a) Emma Bernhardt.
(b) Emma Pozzi.
(c) Emma Laboulbene.
(d) Emma Sedelmeyer.

2. How old was Polignac when he traveled to London in 1885?
(a) 55.
(b) 42.
(c) 41.
(d) 51.

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

4. When was Charles Meigs born?
(a) 1759.
(b) 1792.
(c) 1818.
(d) 1802.

5. What was Jean Lorrain's name at birth?
(a) Paul Duval.
(b) Hubert Juin.
(c) Antonio de la Gandara.
(d) Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is referred to in the book as "the poet-dandy's poet-dandy" (54)?

2. When was the Byzantine emperor Phocas decapitated?

3. When was Lorrain's Monsieur de Phobas published?

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

5. When was Antoine de Riverol born?

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