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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was the novel A Rebours published?
(a) 1884.
(b) 1902.
(c) 1875.
(d) 1890.

2. What was Jean Lorrain's name at birth?
(a) Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly.
(b) Hubert Juin.
(c) Antonio de la Gandara.
(d) Paul Duval.

3. Where was Gabriel Yturri from?
(a) Brazil.
(b) Argentinia.
(c) Portugal.
(d) The United States.

4. Joseph Lister shoed that if all of his sterilization procedures were followed, the death rate of amputations fell from 50% to what percentage?
(a) 10%.
(b) 40%.
(c) 15%.
(d) 20$.

5. When did Leon Daudet fight his first duel?
(a) 1889.
(b) 1912.
(c) 1885.
(d) 1902.

Short Answer Questions

1. Around what year did Nadar take the first photographs of a hermaphrodite?

2. How old was Catherine Pozzi when she married?

3. How was Samuel Pozzi injured in the Franco-Prussian War?

4. Who wrote Des Diaboliques?

5. Who wrote The Picture, in which he defined "dandyism"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What painting inspired the author to write this book? Why?

2. What is an aesthete?

3. How does the author compare the sexual perspectives of those from England and those from France in the late nineteenth century?

4. Who was John Singer Sargent?

5. When did the three Frenchmen arrive in London, according to the author's narrative in the opening of the book? Why were they there?

6. What is known about Montesquiou's sexual exploits, according to the author?

7. Who was Edmond de Goncourt?

8. Who was James Abbott McNeill Whistler?

9. Why was Oscar Wilde put on trial? What was the outcome?

10. Give a brief bio of Dr. Pozzi. When was he born? When did he die? What was his profession?

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