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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. 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)?
(a) Martinez's Operation.
(b) Roget's Operation.
(c) Battey's Operation.
(d) Turette's Operation.

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

3. Under whom did Gille de la Tourette train at the Salpetriere Hospital?
(a) Marie Colombier.
(b) Paul Hervieu.
(c) Paul Duval.
(d) Jean Charcot.

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

5. Where was the painter Felix Ziem from?
(a) Germany.
(b) Italy.
(c) Holland.
(d) France.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Le Cercle de la rue Royale painted?

2. Who was Sarah Bernhardt's friend turned denouncer that called her "an untuned piano, an Achilles vulnerable everywhere but in the right place" (146)?

3. Who did Catherine Pozzi marry in 1909?

4. When did John Singer Sargent send Dr. Pozzi at Home to the Royal Academy in London?

5. Who was the model for Sargent's painting Madame X?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was Gustave Flaubert?

2. Who was Pierre Puvis de Chevannes?

3. How does the author describe Prince Edmond de Polignac?

4. How are Catherine Pozzi's journals described?

5. Describe the works of Edgar Degas. What was his style?

6. What story is related of Léon Delafosse in the narrative?

7. Who was Gustave Moreau?

8. What is A Picture of Dorian Gray about?

9. Who was Georges Clairin?

10. Who was Jeanne Jacquemin?

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