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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. How old was Leon Daudet when he fought his first duel?
(a) 25.
(b) 40.
(c) 30.
(d) 35.

2. Who wrote Des Diaboliques?
(a) Edmond de Goncourt.
(b) Hubert Juin.
(c) Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly.
(d) Edgar Degas.

3. When was Charles Meigs born?
(a) 1792.
(b) 1818.
(c) 1759.
(d) 1802.

4. At what museum did the author first see the painting that inspired this book?
(a) The Whitney Museum of American Art.
(b) The National Portrait Gallery.
(c) The Jeffrey Parks Art Gallery.
(d) The Guggenheim Museum.

5. When did Reinwald publish Samuel Pozzi and Rene Benoit's translation of Darwin's The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals?
(a) 1885.
(b) 1902.
(c) 1874.
(d) 1889.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Ephraim McDowell operate on Jane Crawford to remove an ovarian cyst?

2. What was the name of Samuel Pozzi's mother?

3. What does the author claim art always has on its side?

4. When did Dr. Pozzi receive his doctorate on fistulas of the upper rectum?

5. When did Robert Caze fight in a duel with Felicien Champsaur?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What caused the initial problems between Dr. Pozzi and his wife?

3. Who was Marcel Proust?

4. What does a dandy refer to?

5. Who was Guy de Maupassant?

6. What does Listerism refer to?

7. What literary device does the author reference and explain in the opening of the narrative?

8. From where do the portraits of a number of celebrities in the book arise?

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

10. Who was James Abbott McNeill Whistler?

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