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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To whom did Stein give her first novel for review?
(a) Marguerite Matisse
(b) Alice B. Toklas
(c) Pablo Picasso
(d) Lewis Bromfield

2. Gertrude won an award for describing what object?
(a) sequoias
(b) a dinner plate
(c) sunset
(d) the family cat

3. Which of these items was not a feature at the Matisse house?
(a) statues
(b) greenhouse
(c) fountains
(d) flowers

4. Where did the Steins move when they left Paris?
(a) Boston
(b) Moscow
(c) Budapest
(d) Florence

5. What was the main problem with publishing "The Making of Americans?"
(a) subject matter
(b) length
(c) required editing
(d) timeliness

6. What year did Gertrude's brother move away from Paris?
(a) 1912
(b) 1914
(c) 1906
(d) 1909

7. Who did Alice referred to as being "a tormented and not particularly sympathetic character"?
(a) Erik Satie
(b) Victor Hugo
(c) Alfred Whitehead
(d) Juan Gris

8. Who refused to believe that there was going to be a war?
(a) Stein
(b) Hungarians in Paris
(c) Americans in Europe
(d) Picasso

9. What trait did Stein profess to have?
(a) cowardice
(b) ambition
(c) inertia
(d) fortitude

10. Where did the Steins go when they returned to America?
(a) Boston
(b) Rhode Island
(c) New York
(d) Texas

11. At what age did Gertrude attempt to write a Shakespearean drama?
(a) 8
(b) 17
(c) 12
(d) 13

12. To whom does Alice refer to as the third genius?
(a) Alfred Whitehead
(b) William Cook
(c) Ronnebeck
(d) Magritte Matisse

13. According to Stein, what kind of country is Germany?
(a) culture
(b) prejudiced
(c) medieval
(d) scintillating

14. What was John Lane's favorite food in Provence?
(a) figs
(b) peaches
(c) escargot
(d) foie gras

15. Stein claims to dislike the things that are...
(a) orange
(b) abnormal
(c) dramatic
(d) simple

Short Answer Questions

1. Which is not one of Gertrude's favorite saints?

2. Where did the Whitehead lived before moving to London?

3. In what city did the couple have difficulties getting their passports approved?

4. What was the name of Stein's and Toklas' mallorcan hound

5. Stein and Toklas decided to settle down temporarily, in what location?

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