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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) 25.
(c) 30.
(d) 29.

2. What gift did Pozzi receive from Montesquiou in June of 1884?
(a) A red coat.
(b) A pair of gloves.
(c) A traveling bag.
(d) A pocket watch.

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

4. With what famous actress did Dr. Pozzi have an ongoing affair and friendship?
(a) Emma Fischoff.
(b) Marie Colombier.
(c) Catherine Pozzi.
(d) Sarah Bernhardt.

5. When did Oscar Wilde meet Jean Lorrain?
(a) 1899.
(b) 1893.
(c) 1901.
(d) 1885.

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

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

8. At least how many duels took place in Paris between 1895 and 1905?
(a) 150.
(b) 50.
(c) 300.
(d) 250.

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

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

11. When did Leon Daudet fight his first duel?
(a) 1912.
(b) 1885.
(c) 1902.
(d) 1889.

12. How old was Polignac when he traveled to London in 1885?
(a) 41.
(b) 55.
(c) 42.
(d) 51.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Samuel Pozzi when his son Jacques was born?

2. When did the author first see in person the painting that inspired this book?

3. When did Paul Broca die?

4. When did Reinwald publish Samuel Pozzi and Rene Benoit's translation of Darwin's The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals?

5. 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)?

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