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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 Robert Caze fight in a duel with Felicien Champsaur?
(a) 1892.
(b) 1879.
(c) 1886.
(d) 1902.

2. The author quotes Samuel Pozzi in the book, saying that one of his best quotations is in his treatise on gynecology. Pozzi stated, "Chauvanism is one of the forms of" what (49)?
(a) "Brutality."
(b) "Abuse."
(c) "Ignoranice."
(d) "Hatred."

3. Who was put on trial for having translated Emile Zola's La Terre to English?
(a) Edward Vizetelly.
(b) Joris-Karl Huysmans.
(c) Edmond de Polignac.
(d) Alexandre Laboulbene.

4. What was the name of Samuel Pozzi's mother?
(a) Emma Fischoff.
(b) Ines Escot-Meslon.
(c) Sarah Bernhardt.
(d) Marie Colombier.

5. Who is referred to in the book as "the poet-dandy's poet-dandy" (54)?
(a) Baudelaire.
(b) Georges Vanor.
(c) Edmond de Goncourt.
(d) Hubert Juin.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote The Earth and the Biblical Story of Its Creation?

2. How old was Leon Daudet when he fought his first duel?

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

4. How old was Catherine Pozzi when she married?

5. Who wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is an aesthete?

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

3. Who was Sarah Bernhardt and what role does she play in the narrative?

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

5. Who was Edmond de Goncourt?

6. Who was Guy de Maupassant?

7. What does Listerism refer to?

8. What does the Belle Époque refer to?

9. What does a dandy refer to?

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

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