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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When were many Pozzis burned to death for their faith in the Protestant temple of Teglio?
(a) 1660.
(b) 1620.
(c) 1590.
(d) 1700.

2. Approximately how many people died in the fire at the Bazar de la Charite that is described in the narrative?
(a) 79.
(b) 129.
(c) 210.
(d) 59.

3. Who was Sarah Bernhardt's friend turned denouncer that called her "an untuned piano, an Achilles vulnerable everywhere but in the right place" (146)?
(a) Emma Fischoff.
(b) Walter de la Mare.
(c) Marie Colombier.
(d) Oscar Wilde.

4. How many years after Polignac did his wife Winnaretta die?
(a) 38.
(b) 42.
(c) 25.
(d) 32.

5. At what museum did the author first see the painting that inspired this book?
(a) The Jeffrey Parks Art Gallery.
(b) The Whitney Museum of American Art.
(c) The National Portrait Gallery.
(d) The Guggenheim Museum.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Paul Broca die?

2. What word from the text refers to the making of false and defamatory statements in order to damage someone's reputation?

3. Where was Pozzi's wife Therese's family from?

4. At least how many duels took place in Paris between 1895 and 1905?

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

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