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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. Whose portrait of Montesquiou appeared on the 1967 cover of Against Nature?
(a) Dali's.
(b) Picasso's.
(c) Boldini's.
(d) Sargent's.

2. What gift did Pozzi receive from Montesquiou in June of 1884?
(a) A red coat.
(b) A pair of gloves.
(c) A traveling bag.
(d) A pocket watch.

3. 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) "Ignoranice."
(b) "Brutality."
(c) "Abuse."
(d) "Hatred."

4. When did Antoine de Riverol die?
(a) 1895.
(b) 1815.
(c) 1825.
(d) 1801.

5. Who wrote Des Diaboliques?
(a) Edmond de Goncourt.
(b) Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly.
(c) Hubert Juin.
(d) Edgar Degas.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom was the letter from John Singer Sargent that Dr. Pozzi and his companions brought to London in 1885?

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

3. When was A Rebours first translated to English?

4. Who wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray?

5. What is the name of the flamboyant aristocrat featured in A Rebours?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was Gabriel Yturri?

2. What is the novel A Rebours about?

3. What does a dandy refer to?

4. Who was John Singer Sargent?

5. Who was James Abbott McNeill Whistler?

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

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

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

9. Who was Guy de Maupassant?

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

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