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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was Catherine Pozzi when she married?
(a) 22.
(b) 29.
(c) 25.
(d) 30.

2. Who was the mother of Caliban in The Tempest?
(a) Leiah.
(b) Algeron.
(c) Ataranus.
(d) Sycorax.

3. When was Dr. Adrien Proust brushed by a stray bullet while walking to work?
(a) 1899.
(b) 1888.
(c) 1871.
(d) 1879.

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

5. Where did Montesquiou and Polignac first meet?
(a) Paris.
(b) New York.
(c) Cannes.
(d) London.

6. Who painted The Beguiling of Merlin?
(a) Henry James.
(b) Edward Burne-Jones.
(c) Alexandre Laboulbene.
(d) Emma Fischoff.

7. During what years did Montesquiou share his life with Gabriel Yturri?
(a) 1880-1890.
(b) 1885-1905.
(c) 1875-1895.
(d) 1865-1885.

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

9. When did Leconte de Lisle die?
(a) 1902.
(b) 1890.
(c) 1885.
(d) 1894.

10. How old was Montesquiou when he traveled to London in 1885?
(a) 40.
(b) 35.
(c) 38.
(d) 30.

11. When was Charles Meigs born?
(a) 1792.
(b) 1802.
(c) 1818.
(d) 1759.

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

13. Around what year did Nadar take the first photographs of a hermaphrodite?
(a) 1870.
(b) 1840.
(c) 1860.
(d) 1850.

14. When did Montesquiou and Polignac meet?
(a) 1879.
(b) 1865.
(c) 1875.
(d) 1890.

15. When did Reinwald publish Samuel Pozzi and Rene Benoit's translation of Darwin's The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals?
(a) 1902.
(b) 1889.
(c) 1885.
(d) 1874.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author claim art always has on its side?

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

3. Where was Pozzi's wife Therese's family from?

4. Who wrote The Gentle Art of Making Enemies?

5. When did Charles Meigs die?

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