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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 Picture of Dorian Gray?
(a) Oscar Wilde.
(b) Edward Vizetelly.
(c) Alexandre Laboulbene.
(d) Joris-Karl Huysmans.

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

3. When were many Pozzis burned to death for their faith in the Protestant temple of Teglio?
(a) 1590.
(b) 1660.
(c) 1700.
(d) 1620.

4. When was Charles Meigs born?
(a) 1802.
(b) 1792.
(c) 1818.
(d) 1759.

5. With what famous actress did Dr. Pozzi have an ongoing affair and friendship?
(a) Emma Fischoff.
(b) Sarah Bernhardt.
(c) Marie Colombier.
(d) Catherine Pozzi.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the mother of Caliban in The Tempest?

2. When did Jean Lorrain publish Monsieur de Phocas?

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

4. Where is Dr. Pozzi's left hand in the painting by Sargent?

5. When did Dr. Pozzi receive his doctorate on fistulas of the upper rectum?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the novel A Rebours about?

2. Who was Marcel Proust?

3. What is an aesthete?

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

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

6. Who was James Abbott McNeill Whistler?

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. What does the Belle Époque refer to?

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

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