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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Dr. Pozzi's left hand in the painting by Sargent?
(a) On his chest.
(b) On his hip.
(c) Holding a glass.
(d) Holding a doctor's case.

2. Who wrote the play Love is the Best Medicine?
(a) Alexandre Laboulbene.
(b) Moliere.
(c) Georges-Charles de Heeckeren.
(d) Jean Lorrain.

3. When did Paul Pozzi marry Miriam Ashcroft?
(a) 1885.
(b) 1895.
(c) 1876.
(d) 1888.

4. When did Paul Broca die?
(a) 1852.
(b) 1880.
(c) 1874.
(d) 1885.

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

6. When did Liberty and Co. open in London?
(a) 1882.
(b) 1890.
(c) 1870.
(d) 1875.

7. Who painted the 1898 portrait of Jean Lorrain that is featured in the book?
(a) Edgar Degas.
(b) Antonio de la Gandara.
(c) Hubert Juin.
(d) Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly.

8. Who is referred to in the book as "the poet-dandy's poet-dandy" (54)?
(a) Hubert Juin.
(b) Georges Vanor.
(c) Edmond de Goncourt.
(d) Baudelaire.

9. Who was Samuel Pozzi's grandfather?
(a) Dominique.
(b) Edouard.
(c) Henry.
(d) Georges.

10. When did Dr. Pozzi receive his doctorate on fistulas of the upper rectum?
(a) 1882.
(b) 1879.
(c) 1873.
(d) 1891.

11. Who was Pozzi's cousin that was 20 years his senior and a well-known society doctor whose patients including the ruling family of Napoleon III?
(a) Jean Lorrain.
(b) Edmond de Polignac.
(c) Alexandre Laboulbene.
(d) Georges-Charles de Heeckeren.

12. How much older was Dr. Adrien Proust than Dr. Pozzi?
(a) 6 years older.
(b) 3 yeas older.
(c) 12 years older.
(d) 15 years older.

13. 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.

14. How old was Dr. Pozzi when he traveled to London with the prince and the count in 1885?
(a) 42.
(b) 32.
(c) 28.
(d) 38.

15. What was the name of Samuel Pozzi's mother?
(a) Ines Escot-Meslon.
(b) Marie Colombier.
(c) Sarah Bernhardt.
(d) Emma Fischoff.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote The Gentle Art of Making Enemies?

2. Who wrote Des Diaboliques?

3. Who wrote the novel A Rebours?

4. When was Jean Pozzi born?

5. How old was Polignac when he traveled to London in 1885?

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