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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 was the English governess that Jules Laforgue married the year before he died?
(a) Leah Lee.
(b) Emma de la Mare.
(c) Marie Colombier.
(d) Emma Fischoff.

2. How many years after Polignac did his wife Winnaretta die?
(a) 38.
(b) 32.
(c) 25.
(d) 42.

3. When did Dr. Pozzi publish Traite de gynecologie clinique et operatoire?
(a) 1880.
(b) 1890.
(c) 1850.
(d) 1860.

4. How old was Edmond de Polignac in 1892?
(a) 57.
(b) 49.
(c) 51.
(d) 62.

5. Who did Dr. Pozzi quote in a speech when he said, "However empty the heavens above us might have now become, we should always be able to recognize amongst them the divine figure of Pity" (141)?
(a) Walter de la Mare.
(b) Plato.
(c) William Shakespeare.
(d) Baudelair.

Short Answer Questions

1. What musical instrument was Leon Delafosse known for playing?

2. Who was the model for the fresco Health Restored to the Sick at the Broca?

3. When did Jules Laforgue die?

4. When the Edmond de Polignac Prize was introduced, it was to be awarded annually by the Royal Society of Literature in London and was worth how much?

5. What word from the text refers to the making of false and defamatory statements in order to damage someone's reputation?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was Odilon Redon?

2. Who was Jeanne Jacquemin?

3. What accolades did Pozzi receive on January 1, 1899?

4. What does Battey's Operation refer to?

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

6. What was the nature of Dr. Pozzi's relationship with Emma Fischoff?

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

8. How does the author describe Prince Edmond de Polignac?

9. Who was Gustave Flaubert?

10. Who was Charles Baudelaire?

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