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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Robert Caze fight in a duel with Felicien Champsaur?
(a) 1892.
(b) 1879.
(c) 1886.
(d) 1902.

2. 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) Oscar Wilde.
(c) Marie Colombier.
(d) Walter de la Mare.

3. What term is used to describe a surgery "in which healthy (or only mildly affected) ovaries were removed in order to provoke an artificial menopause and thus cure nervous troubles of various kinds" (140)?
(a) Battey's Operation.
(b) Roget's Operation.
(c) Turette's Operation.
(d) Martinez's Operation.

4. How old was Edmond de Polignac in 1892?
(a) 49.
(b) 57.
(c) 62.
(d) 51.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Gabriel Yturri from?

2. When did Dr. Pozzi arrive in Paris to study medicine?

3. What did the count, the prince, and the doctor hear at Crystal Palace at the Handel Festival?

4. When did Antoine de Riverol die?

5. How old was Samuel Pozzi when his son Jacques was born?

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