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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 Sarah Bernhardt's pet chimpanzee?
(a) Darwin.
(b) Bobo.
(c) Pete.
(d) Roger.

2. Who did Dr. Pozzi quote in a speech when he said, "However empty the heavens above us might have now become, we should always be able to recognize amongst them the divine figure of Pity" (141)?
(a) Plato.
(b) William Shakespeare.
(c) Walter de la Mare.
(d) Baudelair.

3. When did Flaubert die?
(a) 1900.
(b) 1880.
(c) 1903.
(d) 1890.

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

5. What did Winnaretta Singer's fortune come from?
(a) Flour.
(b) Sewing machines.
(c) Oil.
(d) Maple syrup.

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

7. Who among the subjects in Le Cercle de la rue Royale won the lottery to own the painting?
(a) Marie Colombier.
(b) Edgar Degas.
(c) Paul Duval.
(d) Baron Hottinger.

8. When did Edmond de Goncourt die?
(a) 1893.
(b) 1902.
(c) 1896.
(d) 1888.

9. When was the Byzantine emperor Phocas decapitated?
(a) 1610.
(b) 1695.
(c) 1650.
(d) 1717.

10. What musical instrument was Leon Delafosse known for playing?
(a) Violin.
(b) Flute.
(c) Piano.
(d) Harp.

11. Who was Dr. Samuel Pozzi's 1992 biographer?
(a) Marie Colombier.
(b) Emma Fischoff.
(c) Walter de la Mare.
(d) Claude Vanderpooten.

12. When did Catherine Pozzi meet Paul Valery?
(a) 1920.
(b) 1918.
(c) 1915.
(d) 1925.

13. When did Gille de la Tourette die?
(a) 1899.
(b) 1888.
(c) 1900.
(d) 1903.

14. How many years after Polignac did his wife Winnaretta die?
(a) 25.
(b) 32.
(c) 42.
(d) 38.

15. What was Jean Loorain's first novel?
(a) Les Lepillier.
(b) In Search of Lost Time.
(c) Candide.
(d) Les Strange.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the painting Madame X completed?

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

3. What was Emma Fischoff's birth name?

4. When was Leon Delafosse taken up by Proust?

5. How is Edmond de Polignac posed in Le Cercle de la rue Royale?

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