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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. What was Emma Fischoff's father's profession?
(a) He was a politician.
(b) He was an art dealer.
(c) He was a banker.
(d) He was a lawyer.

2. Who was Dr. Samuel Pozzi's 1992 biographer?
(a) Claude Vanderpooten.
(b) Marie Colombier.
(c) Emma Fischoff.
(d) Walter de la Mare.

3. What was Emma Fischoff's birth name?
(a) Emma Sedelmeyer.
(b) Emma Pozzi.
(c) Emma Bernhardt.
(d) Emma Laboulbene.

4. When was Le Cercle de la rue Royale painted?
(a) 1902.
(b) 1868.
(c) 1855.
(d) 1879.

5. Who presided over the Bazar de la Charite when it burned, killing many?
(a) The Baron de Mackau.
(b) Edward Vizetelly.
(c) Walter de la Mare.
(d) Georges-Charles de Heeckeren.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Jean Loorain's first novel?

2. Where was Emma Fischoff born?

3. When did John Singer Sargent paint Carolus-Duran?

4. Who among the subjects in Le Cercle de la rue Royale won the lottery to own the painting?

5. When did Catherine Pozzi undergo an appendectomy?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who did Prince Edmond de Polignac marry? How is their marriage characterized?

2. Why did Jean Lorrain attempt drawing Montesquiou into duels? How did Montesquiou respond?

3. What story is related of Léon Delafosse in the narrative?

4. Who was Pierre Puvis de Chevannes?

5. Describe the painting Madame X. Who painted it and who is the subject?

6. Who was Gustave Moreau?

7. What did Pozzi's grandson Claude Bourdet say of him?

8. Who wrote the novella Agnes and what is it about?

9. Who was Odilon Redon?

10. Where was Emma Fischoff born and raised? What was her family like?

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