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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Lorrain's Monsieur de Phobas published?
(a) 1899.
(b) 1901.
(c) 1911.
(d) 1895.

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

3. When did Dr. Pozzi publish Traite de gynecologie clinique et operatoire?
(a) 1890.
(b) 1850.
(c) 1860.
(d) 1880.

4. With what engraver did Jeanne Jacquemin live in Sevres?
(a) Garza.
(b) Lauzet.
(c) Gaudens.
(d) Dutilleux.

5. What did Winnaretta Singer's fortune come from?
(a) Flour.
(b) Maple syrup.
(c) Sewing machines.
(d) Oil.

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

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

8. When was Leon Delafosse taken up by Proust?
(a) 1902.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1894.
(d) 1912.

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

10. 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) Walter de la Mare.
(b) William Shakespeare.
(c) Baudelair.
(d) Plato.

11. How old was Catherine Pozzi in December of 1903?
(a) 19.
(b) 21.
(c) 26.
(d) 17.

12. When did Gille de la Tourette die?
(a) 1903.
(b) 1888.
(c) 1900.
(d) 1899.

13. What term is used to describe a surgery "in which healthy (or only mildly affected) ovaries were removed in order to provoke an artificial menopause and thus cure nervous troubles of various kinds" (140)?
(a) Battey's Operation.
(b) Turette's Operation.
(c) Martinez's Operation.
(d) Roget's Operation.

14. When did John Singer Sargent send Dr. Pozzi at Home to the Royal Academy in London?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1892.
(c) 1902.
(d) 1882.

15. Who did Catherine Pozzi marry in 1909?
(a) Walter de la Mare.
(b) Edouard Bourdet.
(c) James Colombier.
(d) Edmond de Goncourt.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Mallarme in 1867?

2. When was the Byzantine emperor Phocas decapitated?

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

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

5. Who painted Arrangement in Black and Gold (1891-1892)?

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