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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was a friend of Dr. Pozzi's and the author of Filrt?
(a) Paul Hervieu.
(b) Edgar Degas.
(c) Paul Duval.
(d) Marie Colombier.

2. When was the new chloroform room inaugurated at Broca for anaesthesizing patients before surgery?
(a) 1897.
(b) 1859.
(c) 1869.
(d) 1902.

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

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

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

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

7. 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) Baudelair.
(c) Plato.
(d) William Shakespeare.

8. Who was Flaubert's favorite living painter in his lifetime?
(a) Edgar Degas.
(b) Antonio de la Gandara.
(c) James Tissot.
(d) Gustave Moreau.

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

10. In 1882, Oscar Wilde gave John Singer Sargent a book of poetry by whom?
(a) James Tissot.
(b) Rennell Rodd.
(c) Edgar Degas.
(d) Marie Colombier.

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

12. How old was Edmond de Polignac in 1892?
(a) 51.
(b) 49.
(c) 57.
(d) 62.

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

14. When was Samuel Pozzi invited to the World's Fair in Chicago as part of the official French delegation?
(a) 1899.
(b) 1879.
(c) 1893.
(d) 1882.

15. 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) The Magic Flute.
(c) Don Giovanni.
(d) La Boheme.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Emma Fischoff born?

2. Under what name did Madame Ernest Stern write poetry?

3. Who received the first Edmond de Polignac Prize in 1911?

4. How old was Winnaretta Singer when she married Edmond de Polignac?

5. When was Leon Delafosse taken up by Proust?

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