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Name: _________________________ | Period: ___________________ |
This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Where did Alice go with Gertrude and her brother?
(a) Florence
(b) Fiesole
(c) Trieste
(d) Padua
2. What trait did Stein profess to have?
(a) ambition
(b) inertia
(c) fortitude
(d) cowardice
3. What war preceded the first world war?
(a) Spanish Civil War
(b) Russian Japanese war
(c) French and Indian war
(d) War of 1812
4. How did Alfy describe Paris after the battle of the Marne?
(a) like a blink in time
(b) like a colicky child
(c) like pale absinthe
(d) like an angry tornado
5. In what city did the couple have difficulties getting their passports approved?
(a) Madrid
(b) Moscow
(c) Budapest
(d) Berlin
6. What was the main problem with publishing "The Making of Americans?"
(a) subject matter
(b) length
(c) required editing
(d) timeliness
7. The Steins moved again when Gertrude was three-years-old. To what city did they transfer?
(a) Lucerne
(b) Paris
(c) Amsterdam
(d) Venice
8. Where did the Stein family settle on the West Coast?
(a) Reno
(b) Seattle
(c) Salt Lake City
(d) Oakland
9. Where did Gertrude often spend the summer months?
(a) Europe
(b) the ocean
(c) house in the country
(d) San Francisco
10. Who is John Lane?
(a) writer
(b) publisher
(c) friend
(d) professor
11. What item did Gertrude bring back from Rome that was later broken?
(a) jewelry
(b) vase
(c) plate
(d) typewriter
12. According to Stein, what kind of country is Germany?
(a) culture
(b) medieval
(c) scintillating
(d) prejudiced
13. Stein claims that Cubism is a concept that can be attributed to...
(a) Spaniards
(b) Frenchman
(c) Danes
(d) Portuguese
14. Gertrude won an award for describing what object?
(a) a dinner plate
(b) the family cat
(c) sunset
(d) sequoias
15. What publication published Gertrude's paper?
(a) New York Times
(b) Journal of Medicine
(c) Harvard Psychological Review
(d) Christian Science Monitor
Short Answer Questions
1. Who did Alice referred to as being "a tormented and not particularly sympathetic character"?
2. During this time who became Picasso's closest friend?
3. What was the name of Picasso's oldest friend?
4. What was the name of Picasso's second wife?
5. What kind of alarms were commonplace during this time?
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