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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. Who said "Art is killed by taste" (57)?
(a) Edmond de Goncourt.
(b) Hubert Juin.
(c) James McNeill Whistler.
(d) Edgar Degas.

2. How old was Samuel Pozzi when his son Jacques was born?
(a) 40.
(b) 45.
(c) 50.
(d) 55.

3. When did Antoine de Riverol die?
(a) 1825.
(b) 1895.
(c) 1815.
(d) 1801.

4. When was Jean Pozzi born?
(a) 1891.
(b) 1884.
(c) 1874.
(d) 1895.

5. Who was the prince among the three men who visited London in 1885?
(a) Edward Burne-Jones.
(b) Edmond de Goncourt.
(c) Edmond de Polignac.
(d) Robert de Montesquiou-Fezensac.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Polignac when he traveled to London in 1885?

2. When did Dr. Pozzi arrive in Paris to study medicine?

3. What did the count, the prince, and the doctor hear at Crystal Palace at the Handel Festival?

4. Who was the father of Leon Daudet?

5. At what museum did the author first see the painting that inspired this book?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the novel A Rebours about?

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

3. Who was Guy de Maupassant?

4. What does a dandy refer to?

5. What does Listerism refer to?

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

7. Who was Jean Lorrain?

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

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

10. Who was Edmond de Goncourt?

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