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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote The Picture, in which he defined "dandyism"?
(a) Hubert Juin.
(b) Edgar Degas.
(c) Edmond de Goncourt.
(d) Oscar Wilde.

2. With what famous actress did Dr. Pozzi have an ongoing affair and friendship?
(a) Catherine Pozzi.
(b) Marie Colombier.
(c) Sarah Bernhardt.
(d) Emma Fischoff.

3. When did Robert Caze fight in a duel with Felicien Champsaur?
(a) 1902.
(b) 1879.
(c) 1886.
(d) 1892.

4. How old was Jules-Hippolyte Percher when he was killed?
(a) 32.
(b) 42.
(c) 37.
(d) 29.

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)?
(a) "Abuse."
(b) "Hatred."
(c) "Brutality."
(d) "Ignoranice."

Short Answer Questions

1. How was Samuel Pozzi injured in the Franco-Prussian War?

2. What does the author claim art always has on its side?

3. Who said "Art is killed by taste" (57)?

4. How much older was Dr. Adrien Proust than Dr. Pozzi?

5. When did Leconte de Lisle die?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the author compare the sexual perspectives of those from England and those from France in the late nineteenth century?

2. Why was Oscar Wilde put on trial? What was the outcome?

3. From where do the portraits of a number of celebrities in the book arise?

4. Who was Jean Lorrain?

5. Who was Edmond de Goncourt?

6. What is an aesthete?

7. What caused the initial problems between Dr. Pozzi and his wife?

8. Who was Guy de Maupassant?

9. What painting inspired the author to write this book? Why?

10. What does the Belle Époque refer to?

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