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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 wrote the play Love is the Best Medicine?
(a) Jean Lorrain.
(b) Moliere.
(c) Alexandre Laboulbene.
(d) Georges-Charles de Heeckeren.
2. When did Paul Broca die?
(a) 1852.
(b) 1880.
(c) 1874.
(d) 1885.
3. How old was Polignac when he traveled to London in 1885?
(a) 51.
(b) 41.
(c) 42.
(d) 55.
4. When did Leon Daudet fight his first duel?
(a) 1912.
(b) 1902.
(c) 1889.
(d) 1885.
5. How old was Dr. Pozzi when Sargent painted him in the red coat?
(a) 25.
(b) 39.
(c) 42.
(d) 35.
Short Answer Questions
1. What was Jean Lorrain's name at birth?
2. How old was Catherine Pozzi when she married?
3. How old was Jules-Hippolyte Percher when he was killed?
4. When were many Pozzis burned to death for their faith in the Protestant temple of Teglio?
5. What is the name of the flamboyant aristocrat featured in A Rebours?
Short Essay Questions
1. What caused the initial problems between Dr. Pozzi and his wife?
2. What does a dandy refer to?
3. Who was Gabriel Yturri?
4. Why was Oscar Wilde put on trial? What was the outcome?
5. Who was Edmond de Goncourt?
6. What literary device does the author reference and explain in the opening of the narrative?
7. Who was Sarah Bernhardt and what role does she play in the narrative?
8. What does the Belle Époque refer to?
9. What is the novel A Rebours about?
10. Who was James Abbott McNeill Whistler?
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