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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. Joseph Lister shoed that if all of his sterilization procedures were followed, the death rate of amputations fell from 50% to what percentage?
(a) 15%.
(b) 20$.
(c) 40%.
(d) 10%.

2. Who was the mother of Caliban in The Tempest?
(a) Algeron.
(b) Leiah.
(c) Ataranus.
(d) Sycorax.

3. When did Paul Pozzi marry Miriam Ashcroft?
(a) 1895.
(b) 1876.
(c) 1885.
(d) 1888.

4. How much older was Dr. Adrien Proust than Dr. Pozzi?
(a) 3 yeas older.
(b) 15 years older.
(c) 12 years older.
(d) 6 years older.

5. Around what year did Nadar take the first photographs of a hermaphrodite?
(a) 1870.
(b) 1860.
(c) 1840.
(d) 1850.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the novel A Rebours?

2. Where did Montesquiou and Polignac first meet?

3. When did Paul Broca die?

4. Who was put on trial for having translated Emile Zola's La Terre to English?

5. When did Leon Daudet fight his first duel?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was Jean Lorrain?

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

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

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. What is an aesthete?

7. Who was John Singer Sargent?

8. Who was Gabriel Yturri?

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

10. What does a dandy refer to?

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