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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When was Antoine de Riverol born?
(a) 1726.
(b) 1753.
(c) 1779.
(d) 1802.

3. 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) Georges-Charles de Heeckeren.
(c) Edmond de Polignac.
(d) Alexandre Laboulbene.

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

5. Where was Gabriel Yturri from?
(a) The United States.
(b) Brazil.
(c) Argentinia.
(d) Portugal.

6. When was Jean Pozzi born?
(a) 1891.
(b) 1874.
(c) 1884.
(d) 1895.

7. Who wrote Des Diaboliques?
(a) Hubert Juin.
(b) Edmond de Goncourt.
(c) Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly.
(d) Edgar Degas.

8. Who wrote The Picture, in which he defined "dandyism"?
(a) Edmond de Goncourt.
(b) Hubert Juin.
(c) Edgar Degas.
(d) Oscar Wilde.

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

10. When did the author first see in person the painting that inspired this book?
(a) 2015.
(b) 2011.
(c) 2001.
(d) 2008.

11. Pushkin was killed in a duel with whom in 1837?
(a) Alexandre Laboulbene.
(b) Edmond de Polignac.
(c) Edward Vizetelly.
(d) Georges-Charles de Heeckeren.

12. When was Father and Son published?
(a) 1889.
(b) 1907.
(c) 1915.
(d) 1901.

13. To whom was the letter from John Singer Sargent that Dr. Pozzi and his companions brought to London in 1885?
(a) Edmond de Goncourt.
(b) Henry James.
(c) Moliere.
(d) Edward Burne-Jones.

14. Where was Pozzi's wife Therese's family from?
(a) Cannes.
(b) Paris.
(c) Lyon.
(d) Florence.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who painted the 1898 portrait of Jean Lorrain that is featured in the book?

2. When did Leconte de Lisle die?

3. Who wrote the play Love is the Best Medicine?

4. When did Antoine de Riverol die?

5. When did Liberty and Co. open in London?

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