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

2. When did Jean Lorrain publish Monsieur de Phocas?
(a) 1901.
(b) 1905.
(c) 1912.
(d) 1892.

3. Where was Gabriel Yturri from?
(a) Portugal.
(b) Brazil.
(c) Argentinia.
(d) The United States.

4. Who was the prince among the three men who visited London in 1885?
(a) Edward Burne-Jones.
(b) Edmond de Goncourt.
(c) Robert de Montesquiou-Fezensac.
(d) Edmond de Polignac.

5. When did Samuel Pozzi restore the family name to "Pozzi" from "Pozzy"?
(a) 1882.
(b) 1845.
(c) 1873.
(d) 1799.

Short Answer Questions

1. Around what year did Nadar take the first photographs of a hermaphrodite?

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

3. When did Montesquiou and Polignac meet?

4. Who painted the 1898 portrait of Jean Lorrain that is featured in the book?

5. When was Jean Pozzi born?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the novel A Rebours about?

2. When did the three Frenchmen arrive in London, according to the author's narrative in the opening of the book? Why were they there?

3. Who was Gabriel Yturri?

4. What is an aesthete?

5. Give a brief bio of Dr. Pozzi. When was he born? When did he die? What was his profession?

6. Who was Sarah Bernhardt and what role does she play in the narrative?

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

8. What is a duel? What is its history?

9. What does Listerism refer to?

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

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