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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What word from the text refers to the making of false and defamatory statements in order to damage someone's reputation?
(a) Propaganda.
(b) Arbitration.
(c) Sadism.
(d) Calumny.

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

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

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

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

7. When the Edmond de Polignac Prize was introduced, it was to be awarded annually by the Royal Society of Literature in London and was worth how much?
(a) 75 pounds.
(b) 50 pounds.
(c) 200 pounds.
(d) 100 pounds.

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

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

10. Who painted Le Cercle de la rue Royale?
(a) Marie Colombier.
(b) Edgar Degas.
(c) James Tissot.
(d) Paul Duval.

11. How much money did the dozen members of the gentlemen's club pay to be included in Le Cercle de la rue Royale?
(a) 3,000 francs.
(b) 2,000 francs.
(c) 500 francs.
(d) 1,000 francs.

12. 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) Martinez's Operation.
(b) Roget's Operation.
(c) Turette's Operation.
(d) Battey's Operation.

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

14. What is defined in the book as "a collection of holes tied together with string" (101)?
(a) Mass media.
(b) Print journalism.
(c) History.
(d) Biography.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Catherine Pozzi undergo an appendectomy?

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

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)?

4. Who presided over the Bazar de la Charite when it burned, killing many?

5. How is Edmond de Polignac posed in Le Cercle de la rue Royale?

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