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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. Who painted the 1898 portrait of Jean Lorrain that is featured in the book?
(a) Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly.
(b) Edgar Degas.
(c) Antonio de la Gandara.
(d) Hubert Juin.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Joseph Lister shoed that if all of his sterilization procedures were followed, the death rate of amputations fell from 50% to what percentage?

2. When did Paul Pozzi marry Miriam Ashcroft?

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

4. Who was Samuel Pozzi's grandfather?

5. Who wrote Des Diaboliques?

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