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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of the college Gertrude first attended?
(a) Vassar
(b) UCLA
(c) Radcliffe
(d) Oxford

2. What war preceded the first world war?
(a) French and Indian war
(b) Spanish Civil War
(c) War of 1812
(d) Russian Japanese war

3. According to Stein Germans lack what ability?
(a) laughter
(b) common sense
(c) intelligent thought
(d) organization

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

5. What kind of alarms were commonplace during this time?
(a) fire drill
(b) atomic bomb
(c) curfew
(d) Zeppelin

6. Where was Stein's first European residence?
(a) Florence
(b) Vienna
(c) Prague
(d) Paris

7. Who was forced to leave the Stein apartment at the insistence of a spouse?
(a) Mildred
(b) Helene
(c) Amelie
(d) Fernande

8. What was the name of Picasso's second wife?
(a) Eve
(b) Eloise
(c) Marie
(d) Fernande

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

10. Where did the Whitehead lived before moving to London?
(a) San Francisco
(b) Vienna
(c) Pittsburgh
(d) Cambridge

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

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

13. What European city did Stein take a disliking to upon her first visit?
(a) Milan
(b) Provence
(c) London
(d) Munich

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

15. What publication published Gertrude's paper?
(a) Harvard Psychological Review
(b) Christian Science Monitor
(c) Journal of Medicine
(d) New York Times

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the occupation of the couple's military godson?

2. Who was the first person to quote Gertrude Stein's work to her?

3. Stein claims that Cubism is a concept that can be attributed to...

4. Alice describes her Saturday evenings in Paris to what object?

5. While in medical school, Gertrude was well-known for...

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