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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the model for Sargent's painting Madame X?
(a) Jean Charcot.
(b) Sarah Bernhardt.
(c) Marie Colombier.
(d) Amelie Gautreau.

2. When was Jules Laforgue born?
(a) 1860.
(b) 1850.
(c) 1880.
(d) 1870.

3. Who was Sarah Bernhardt's friend turned denouncer that called her "an untuned piano, an Achilles vulnerable everywhere but in the right place" (146)?
(a) Marie Colombier.
(b) Oscar Wilde.
(c) Walter de la Mare.
(d) Emma Fischoff.

4. Who wrote the opera Patience?
(a) Puccini.
(b) Gilbert and Sullivan.
(c) Handel.
(d) Mozart.

5. How old was Winnaretta Singer when she married Edmond de Polignac?
(a) 25.
(b) 22.
(c) 28.
(d) 32.

6. What excuse did Dr. Pozzi have for his European excursion with Emma Fischoff in 1903?
(a) A business meeting in Paris.
(b) A gynecological conference in Athens.
(c) A gynecological conference in Bern.
(d) A medical convention in Oslo.

7. Who was the English governess that Jules Laforgue married the year before he died?
(a) Emma Fischoff.
(b) Emma de la Mare.
(c) Leah Lee.
(d) Marie Colombier.

8. Who painted the grand fresco that was 4.40 meters wide and 2.75 meters high at the Broca?
(a) Georges Clairin.
(b) Joris-Karl Huysmans.
(c) Edward Vizetelly.
(d) Walter de la Mare.

9. Who among the subjects in Le Cercle de la rue Royale won the lottery to own the painting?
(a) Edgar Degas.
(b) Baron Hottinger.
(c) Marie Colombier.
(d) Paul Duval.

10. When did Edmond de Goncourt die?
(a) 1902.
(b) 1893.
(c) 1888.
(d) 1896.

11. When did Count Robert de Montesquiou arrive in America for a four-city engagement?
(a) September, 1889.
(b) June, 1885.
(c) January, 1882.
(d) January, 1903.

12. When did Catherine Pozzi meet Paul Valery?
(a) 1915.
(b) 1925.
(c) 1918.
(d) 1920.

13. Who received the first Edmond de Polignac Prize in 1911?
(a) Joris-Karl Huysmans.
(b) Edward Vizetelly.
(c) Marie Colombier.
(d) Walter de la Mare.

14. When did Flaubert die?
(a) 1900.
(b) 1903.
(c) 1880.
(d) 1890.

15. When is the Self-portrait by Winnaretta Singer dated that is printed in the book?
(a) 1890.
(b) 1902.
(c) 1889.
(d) 1885.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the famous racehorse that Emma Fischoff's husband Eugene owned?

2. What was Emma Fischoff's birth name?

3. Who was Dr. Samuel Pozzi's 1992 biographer?

4. What does the author say bad smells are in the narrative?

5. Who was the model for the fresco Health Restored to the Sick at the Broca?

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