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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who presided over the Bazar de la Charite when it burned, killing many?
(a) Edward Vizetelly.
(b) Georges-Charles de Heeckeren.
(c) The Baron de Mackau.
(d) Walter de la Mare.

2. Who did Dr. Pozzi quote in a speech when he said, "However empty the heavens above us might have now become, we should always be able to recognize amongst them the divine figure of Pity" (141)?
(a) Plato.
(b) William Shakespeare.
(c) Walter de la Mare.
(d) Baudelair.

3. When was the Byzantine emperor Phocas decapitated?
(a) 1650.
(b) 1610.
(c) 1695.
(d) 1717.

4. When was the painting Madame X completed?
(a) 1880.
(b) 1884.
(c) 1902.
(d) 1895.

5. On what date did a fire break out at the Bazar de la Charite, an annual event organized by the Catholic aristocracy of France, according to the narrative?
(a) June 12, 1889.
(b) May 1, 1901.
(c) July 13, 1919.
(d) May 4, 1897.

6. On her first outing as a grown-up girl at 14, Catherine Pozzi's father took her to see what opera?
(a) La Traviata.
(b) La Boheme.
(c) Don Giovanni.
(d) The Magic Flute.

7. How many years after Polignac did his wife Winnaretta die?
(a) 42.
(b) 38.
(c) 25.
(d) 32.

8. What was Emma Fischoff's father's profession?
(a) He was a politician.
(b) He was a lawyer.
(c) He was an art dealer.
(d) He was a banker.

9. When did John Singer Sargent paint Carolus-Duran?
(a) 1865.
(b) 1885.
(c) 1871.
(d) 1879.

10. Who wrote the opera La Muette de Portici?
(a) Daniel Auber.
(b) Walter de la Mare.
(c) Emma Fischoff.
(d) Marie Colombier.

11. When was Le Cercle de la rue Royale painted?
(a) 1868.
(b) 1902.
(c) 1855.
(d) 1879.

12. Who was the model for the fresco Health Restored to the Sick at the Broca?
(a) Walter de la Mare.
(b) Maria Devoraux.
(c) Anna de Falco.
(d) Sarah Bernhardt.

13. When did Catherine Pozzi undergo an appendectomy?
(a) 1889.
(b) 1902.
(c) 1899.
(d) 1895.

14. Under what name did Madame Ernest Stern write poetry?
(a) Walter de la Mare.
(b) Edward Vizetelly.
(c) Maria Star.
(d) Marie Colombier.

15. Where was Emma Fischoff born?
(a) Paris.
(b) Vienna.
(c) Cannes.
(d) Florence.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the model for Sargent's painting Madame X?

2. How old was Mallarme in 1867?

3. What musical instrument was Leon Delafosse known for playing?

4. What was the name of Sarah Bernhardt's pet chimpanzee?

5. When did Catherine Pozzi meet Paul Valery?

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