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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 183 - 226.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Marie Colombier.
(b) Oscar Wilde.
(c) Walter de la Mare.
(d) Emma Fischoff.

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

3. When was Samuel Pozzi invited to the World's Fair in Chicago as part of the official French delegation?
(a) 1879.
(b) 1893.
(c) 1899.
(d) 1882.

4. When did John Singer Sargent paint Carolus-Duran?
(a) 1871.
(b) 1879.
(c) 1885.
(d) 1865.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Jules-Hippolyte Percher when he was killed?

2. What was the name of the famous racehorse that Emma Fischoff's husband Eugene owned?

3. On her first outing as a grown-up girl at 14, Catherine Pozzi's father took her to see what opera?

4. What is the title of the three-act play that Catherine Pozzi's husband wrote on their honeymoon?

5. When were many Pozzis burned to death for their faith in the Protestant temple of Teglio?

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