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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 133 - 183.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the model for the fresco Health Restored to the Sick at the Broca?
(a) Maria Devoraux.
(b) Walter de la Mare.
(c) Anna de Falco.
(d) Sarah Bernhardt.

2. When did Leon Daudet fight his first duel?
(a) 1902.
(b) 1912.
(c) 1885.
(d) 1889.

3. When is the Self-portrait by Winnaretta Singer dated that is printed in the book?
(a) 1902.
(b) 1885.
(c) 1889.
(d) 1890.

4. On her first outing as a grown-up girl at 14, Catherine Pozzi's father took her to see what opera?
(a) La Traviata.
(b) The Magic Flute.
(c) Don Giovanni.
(d) La Boheme.

5. Who is referred to in the book as "the poet-dandy's poet-dandy" (54)?
(a) Georges Vanor.
(b) Edmond de Goncourt.
(c) Baudelaire.
(d) Hubert Juin.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the model for Sargent's painting Madame X?

2. How old was Catherine Pozzi in December of 1903?

3. When was Antoine de Riverol born?

4. How old was Jules-Hippolyte Percher when he was killed?

5. The author quotes Samuel Pozzi in the book, saying that one of his best quotations is in his treatise on gynecology. Pozzi stated, "Chauvanism is one of the forms of" what (49)?

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