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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the flamboyant aristocrat featured in A Rebours?
(a) Edmond de Polignac.
(b) Alexandre Laboulbene.
(c) Duc Jean Floressas des Esseintes.
(d) Joris-Karl Huysmans.

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

3. What does the author claim art always has on its side?
(a) Beauty.
(b) Justice.
(c) Time.
(d) Truth.

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

5. How old was Leon Daudet when he fought his first duel?
(a) 40.
(b) 35.
(c) 30.
(d) 25.

6. Who wrote the novel A Rebours?
(a) Henry James.
(b) Emma Fischoff.
(c) Alexandre Laboulbene.
(d) Joris-Karl Huysmans.

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

8. When did Jean Lorrain publish Monsieur de Phocas?
(a) 1901.
(b) 1912.
(c) 1892.
(d) 1905.

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

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

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

12. When did Dr. Pozzi arrive in Paris to study medicine?
(a) 1864.
(b) 1860.
(c) 1874.
(d) 1855.

13. Who was the count among the three men who are described visiting London in 1885?
(a) Edmond de Polignac.
(b) Edmond de Goncourt.
(c) Robert de Montesquiou-Fezensac.
(d) Edward Burne-Jones.

14. Who said "Art is killed by taste" (57)?
(a) Edmond de Goncourt.
(b) Edgar Degas.
(c) Hubert Juin.
(d) James McNeill Whistler.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is referred to in the book as "the poet-dandy's poet-dandy" (54)?

2. Where is Dr. Pozzi's left hand in the painting by Sargent?

3. Who was Samuel Pozzi's grandfather?

4. How much older was Dr. Adrien Proust than Dr. Pozzi?

5. Where is Dr. Pozzi's right hand in the painting by Sargent?

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