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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What activity did Matisse perform every afternoon?
(a) drinking wine by the Lake
(b) sketching in the nude
(c) walking the family's dogs
(d) taking a nap in the sun

2. What was the name of Stein's and Toklas' mallorcan hound
(a) Troy
(b) Marchand
(c) Pembroke
(d) Polybe

3. Where did Matisse buy a house?
(a) Montmartre
(b) Clamart
(c) Provence
(d) rue de Fleurus

4. Gertrude had no talent for what art form?
(a) singing
(b) music
(c) drawing
(d) dancing

5. According to Stein, only Americans and Spaniards can understand what concept?
(a) Surrealism
(b) Impressionism
(c) abstraction
(d) tesselations

6. Who was the first person to quote Gertrude Stein's work to her?
(a) Ronnebeck
(b) Uhde
(c) Roche
(d) Manolo

7. Where was Gertrude Stein born?
(a) Vienna
(b) Maine
(c) California
(d) Pennsylvania

8. How did Alfy describe Paris after the battle of the Marne?
(a) like a blink in time
(b) like pale absinthe
(c) like a colicky child
(d) like an angry tornado

9. What was the name of Stein's first publisher?
(a) John Lane
(b) Alfred Whitehead
(c) Alfred Steglitz
(d) David Starr Jordan

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

11. What is the English translation of "Nullement en danger ne t'inquiete pas?"
(a) It is the quiet ones that are dangerous
(b) There is a danger of running out of tuna fish
(c) That there is no danger, don't worry
(d) She suffers in quiet danger

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

13. Who taught Gertrude Stein, how to drive?
(a) Alice B. Toklas
(b) John Lane
(c) William Cook
(d) Mrs. Penfold

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

15. What was Ronnebeck's profession?
(a) vagrant
(b) sculptor
(c) politician
(d) professor

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the college Gertrude first attended?

2. Where did the Steins go when they returned to America?

3. What kind of vehicle was being sent to Stein and Toklas?

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

5. What was the main problem with publishing "The Making of Americans?"

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