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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Where did Montesquiou and Polignac first meet?
(a) London.
(b) New York.
(c) Cannes.
(d) Paris.
2. When was Charles Meigs born?
(a) 1818.
(b) 1792.
(c) 1802.
(d) 1759.
3. When were many Pozzis burned to death for their faith in the Protestant temple of Teglio?
(a) 1660.
(b) 1700.
(c) 1620.
(d) 1590.
4. When did Liberty and Co. open in London?
(a) 1882.
(b) 1875.
(c) 1870.
(d) 1890.
5. What was Jean Lorrain's name at birth?
(a) Hubert Juin.
(b) Paul Duval.
(c) Antonio de la Gandara.
(d) Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly.
6. Who wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray?
(a) Edward Vizetelly.
(b) Joris-Karl Huysmans.
(c) Alexandre Laboulbene.
(d) Oscar Wilde.
7. Who was Samuel Pozzi's grandfather?
(a) Henry.
(b) Edouard.
(c) Dominique.
(d) Georges.
8. When did Reinwald publish Samuel Pozzi and Rene Benoit's translation of Darwin's The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals?
(a) 1874.
(b) 1885.
(c) 1902.
(d) 1889.
9. At what museum did the author first see the painting that inspired this book?
(a) The Guggenheim Museum.
(b) The Jeffrey Parks Art Gallery.
(c) The Whitney Museum of American Art.
(d) The National Portrait Gallery.
10. Who was put on trial for having translated Emile Zola's La Terre to English?
(a) Alexandre Laboulbene.
(b) Joris-Karl Huysmans.
(c) Edward Vizetelly.
(d) Edmond de Polignac.
11. When was Jean Pozzi born?
(a) 1884.
(b) 1895.
(c) 1891.
(d) 1874.
12. When did Ephraim McDowell operate on Jane Crawford to remove an ovarian cyst?
(a) 1882.
(b) 1892.
(c) 1811.
(d) 1809.
13. When did Jean Lorrain publish Monsieur de Phocas?
(a) 1892.
(b) 1905.
(c) 1901.
(d) 1912.
14. When did Leconte de Lisle die?
(a) 1885.
(b) 1894.
(c) 1902.
(d) 1890.
15. How old was Samuel Pozzi when his son Jacques was born?
(a) 40.
(b) 55.
(c) 50.
(d) 45.
Short Answer Questions
1. The author quotes Samuel Pozzi in the book, saying that one of his best quotations is in his treatise on gynecology. Pozzi stated, "Chauvanism is one of the forms of" what (49)?
2. How old was Polignac when he traveled to London in 1885?
3. Who was the mother of Caliban in The Tempest?
4. How old was Dr. Pozzi when he traveled to London with the prince and the count in 1885?
5. Who wrote The Picture, in which he defined "dandyism"?
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