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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Le Cercle de la rue Royale painted?
(a) 1855.
(b) 1902.
(c) 1879.
(d) 1868.

2. Who painted Arrangement in Black and Gold (1891-1892)?
(a) James Whistler.
(b) Marie Colombier.
(c) Edgar Degas.
(d) James Tissot.

3. What does the author say bad smells are in the narrative?
(a) Signs of warning.
(b) Regrets.
(c) Good reminders.
(d) Sad memories.

4. How old was Mallarme in 1867?
(a) 22.
(b) 25.
(c) 29.
(d) 32.

5. Who painted the grand fresco that was 4.40 meters wide and 2.75 meters high at the Broca?
(a) Walter de la Mare.
(b) Georges Clairin.
(c) Joris-Karl Huysmans.
(d) Edward Vizetelly.

6. When did Catherine Pozzi undergo an appendectomy?
(a) 1902.
(b) 1899.
(c) 1895.
(d) 1889.

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

8. Who wrote the opera Patience?
(a) Handel.
(b) Gilbert and Sullivan.
(c) Mozart.
(d) Puccini.

9. What was Emma Fischoff's birth name?
(a) Emma Laboulbene.
(b) Emma Pozzi.
(c) Emma Bernhardt.
(d) Emma Sedelmeyer.

10. With what engraver did Jeanne Jacquemin live in Sevres?
(a) Dutilleux.
(b) Lauzet.
(c) Gaudens.
(d) Garza.

11. When did Jules Laforgue die?
(a) 1897.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1902.
(d) 1887.

12. Who was Flaubert's favorite living painter in his lifetime?
(a) Antonio de la Gandara.
(b) James Tissot.
(c) Gustave Moreau.
(d) Edgar Degas.

13. What was Emma Fischoff's father's profession?
(a) He was a politician.
(b) He was a banker.
(c) He was an art dealer.
(d) He was a lawyer.

14. Who received the first Edmond de Polignac Prize in 1911?
(a) Walter de la Mare.
(b) Edward Vizetelly.
(c) Marie Colombier.
(d) Joris-Karl Huysmans.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Dr. Samuel Pozzi give his inaugural lecture as the first chair of gynecology in Paris?

2. What word from the text refers to the making of false and defamatory statements in order to damage someone's reputation?

3. What term is used to describe a surgery "in which healthy (or only mildly affected) ovaries were removed in order to provoke an artificial menopause and thus cure nervous troubles of various kinds" (140)?

4. When was Jules Laforgue born?

5. When did Dr. Pozzi publish Traite de gynecologie clinique et operatoire?

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