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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the English translation of "un coup de foudre?"
(a) A political arrest
(b) Civil unrest
(c) A collection of paintings
(d) Love at first sight

2. What area of Paris is popular with artists?
(a) Tuilleries
(b) Place de la Concord
(c) Montmartre
(d) Latin Quarter

3. Who would supply the lessons to Alice?
(a) Fernande
(b) Henri
(c) Gertrude
(d) Apollinaire

4. Alice's father said, "if you must do a thing do it _____________."
(a) Consciously
(b) Graciously
(c) Intellectually
(d) Thoroughly

5. How does Alice refer to her mother?
(a) Quiet
(b) Boisterous
(c) Lonely
(d) Shy

6. What was the name of one of the top two large spring salons?
(a) Place de la Concord
(b) Champ-de-Mars
(c) Musee de Montmartre
(d) Tuilleries

7. What artist was a friend of the photographer, Duret?
(a) James Whistler
(b) Alfy Maurer
(c) Henri Matisse
(d) Max Jacob

8. What military position did Alice's great-great-uncle hold?
(a) Captain
(b) Colonel
(c) Sergeant
(d) General

9. What about Gertrude impressed Alice?
(a) Height
(b) Her short stories
(c) Her voice
(d) Worldliness

10. What was the price of Alice's lessons?
(a) $.50 per hour
(b) $1.00 per day
(c) free
(d) $.75 per lesson

11. Some people thought Picasso resembled which famous American?
(a) Abraham Lincoln
(b) Ulysses S. Grant
(c) George Washington
(d) Aaron Burr

12. Where was Alice B. Toklas born?
(a) New York
(b) San Francisco
(c) San Antonio
(d) Paris

13. Who painted a portrait of Gertrude Stein?
(a) Cézanne
(b) Monet
(c) Picasso
(d) Matisse

14. What was the name of the street on which the Picassos lived?
(a) avenue Foch
(b) rue Ravignan
(c) rue de Fleurus
(d) rue d'Avron

15. What was the name of the confectioner who made honey cakes and nut candies?
(a) Fouquet
(b) Ravignan
(c) Nestlé
(d) Parisian Chocolat

Short Answer Questions

1. What activity did Stein partake in every afternoon?

2. Cézanne's portrait of a woman inspired what Gertrude Stein work?

3. Where was Gertrude's brother living when he learned about Cézanne?

4. What was the name of the book that Gertrude Stein was having privately printed in 1907?

5. When it came to writing, what was Stein's passion?

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