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

2. How was Samuel Pozzi injured in the Franco-Prussian War?
(a) A horse-drawn ambulance ran over his ankle.
(b) He was shot.
(c) He broke his leg in a trench.
(d) His ribs were broken when he fell off a cliff.

3. During what years did Montesquiou share his life with Gabriel Yturri?
(a) 1885-1905.
(b) 1875-1895.
(c) 1880-1890.
(d) 1865-1885.

4. Who was the matchmaker for Samuel Pozzi and his wife Therese?
(a) Henri Cazalis.
(b) Edgar Degas.
(c) Hubert Juin.
(d) Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Pozzi's wife Therese's family from?

2. When did Paul Broca die?

3. Where is Dr. Pozzi's right hand in the painting by Sargent?

4. Who is referred to in the book as "the poet-dandy's poet-dandy" (54)?

5. When did Charles Meigs die?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does a dandy refer to?

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

3. Who was Guy de Maupassant?

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

5. What is a duel? What is its history?

6. What does Des Esseintes tortoise symbolize?

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

8. Who was Edmond de Goncourt?

9. What does the Belle Époque refer to?

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

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