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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of Samuel Pozzi's mother?

2. Where was Liberty and Co. located when it opened in London?

3. When were many Pozzis burned to death for their faith in the Protestant temple of Teglio?

4. When did Robert Caze fight in a duel with Felicien Champsaur?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does a dandy refer to?

2. Who was Edmond de Goncourt?

3. Who was Marcel Proust?

4. What does Des Esseintes tortoise symbolize?

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

6. Who was James Abbott McNeill Whistler?

7. What does the Belle Époque refer to?

8. From where do the portraits of a number of celebrities in the book arise?

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

10. Who was Guy de Maupassant?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe and discuss "dandyism." What was a dandy? How was a dandy different from an aesthete? How were they similar? Who were the most notable dandies at the time?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the practice of dueling during the Belle Époque. What were the basic principles of a duel? What were the rules and practices? How many duels took place? Did anyone die from duels?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the medical advances that took place during the Belle Époque. What countries led the world in medical advances? What advances were made? How was Dr. Pozzi a part of those advancements?

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