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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was Jules-Hippolyte Percher when he was killed?
(a) 32.
(b) 37.
(c) 42.
(d) 29.

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

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

4. Who is referred to in the book as "the poet-dandy's poet-dandy" (54)?
(a) Georges Vanor.
(b) Hubert Juin.
(c) Baudelaire.
(d) Edmond de Goncourt.

5. Whose portrait of Montesquiou appeared on the 1967 cover of Against Nature?
(a) Dali's.
(b) Sargent's.
(c) Boldini's.
(d) Picasso's.

6. Where was Liberty and Co. located when it opened in London?
(a) Carnaby Street.
(b) Abbey Road.
(c) Regent Street.
(d) Oxford Street.

7. How old was Samuel Pozzi when his son Jacques was born?
(a) 55.
(b) 50.
(c) 45.
(d) 40.

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

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

10. How was Samuel Pozzi injured in the Franco-Prussian War?
(a) He broke his leg in a trench.
(b) His ribs were broken when he fell off a cliff.
(c) He was shot.
(d) A horse-drawn ambulance ran over his ankle.

11. When did Antoine de Riverol die?
(a) 1825.
(b) 1895.
(c) 1801.
(d) 1815.

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

13. When were many Pozzis burned to death for their faith in the Protestant temple of Teglio?
(a) 1620.
(b) 1590.
(c) 1660.
(d) 1700.

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

15. When did Ephraim McDowell operate on Jane Crawford to remove an ovarian cyst?
(a) 1809.
(b) 1892.
(c) 1882.
(d) 1811.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Paul Pozzi marry Miriam Ashcroft?

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

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

4. Who fought in a duel with Catulle Mendes in 1901?

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

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