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Paris Final Exam Quiz 2025
Paris Final Exam Quiz 2025
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1
The following writer wrote a letter in defense of Alfred Dreyfus
Charles Baudelaire
Emile Zola
James Baldwin
Colette
2
Shakespeare and Co. was owned by:
Sylvia Beach
Renée Vivien
Natalie Barney
Gertrude Stein
3
Art Nouveau is based on straight lines
False
True
4
Toulouse-Lautrec was a painter from the bourgeois class
False
True
5
The Belle Époque takes place during the Third Republic
False
True
6
Who were the proponents of 'Négritude' (Blackness):
W.E.B. DuBois
Richard Wright
Léopold Senghor
Aimé Césaire
7
France and America were close allies at the end of the eighteenth century because of the following:
They each became a Republic
They shared political ideologies
They both had colonies
They both had a revolution
8
In late 20th century, French policy towards immigrants included the following
Segregation
Assimilation
Secularism
Integration
9
In 1950s and 1960s, Parisians thought American culture was cool
False
True
10
Colette was first woman to receive a French state funeral in 1954
True
False
11
Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir were a married couple
False
True
12
The following are French film companies
Gaumont
Paramount
Universal
Pathé
13
Camille Pissarro made a series of paintings of the following:
The Grenouillère
Rouen Cathedral
The Boulevard Montmartre
The Gare St Lazare
14
The Luncheon of the Boating Party was painted by:
Mary Cassatt
Edouard Manet
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Gustave Caillebotte
15
During WWII, Germany occupied the North of France
False
True
16
Who were a famous interracial couple in 1950s
Richard Wright and Colette
Juliette Greco and Boris Vian
Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir
Juliette Greco and Miles Davis
17
J.M.W. Turner was an early Impressionist
True
False
18
Germany occupied France in what year:
1939
1940
1942
1944
19
Alfred Dreyfus was convicted of treason for being Jewish
True
False
20
Simone de Beauvoir wrote The Second Sex
True
False
21
Charlie Hebdo is what
A French politician
A satirical magazine
A comic strip
Subject to a terrorist attack
22
The May 1968 revolt involved the following:
Students
The professional class
The working class
Women
23
The following are ex-French colonies
Algeria
Madagascar
Congo
Senegal
24
Art Deco comes before Art Nouveau
True
False
25
Who wrote the jazz song, 'I Love Paris'
Louis Armstrong
Cole Porter
Duke Ellington
Miles Davis
26
The poorer Parisian banlieues include North African immigrants and French working class
False
True
27
Why do Americans come to Paris in 1950s
Paris is not politically conservative
Paris has no segregation laws
Paris has more sexual freedom
Paris is expensive
28
Who is David in Giovanni's Room
The point of view character
A Black American
A white American
A straight man
29
Impressionists painted the following subjects:
Urban scenes
Ordinary people
Historical events
Biblical stories
30
The following rights were obtained for women in the 1960s:
Married women can open their own bank accounts
French women obtain the vote
Legalization of contraception
Legalization of abortion
31
The Notre Dame fire took place in 2019
False
True
32
The allied powers during WWI were:
Great Britain
France
Russia
Austria-Hungary
33
The Musée d'Orsay used to be a train station
False
True
34
Impressionist technique involved the following
Realist representations
Emphasis on movement
Visible brush strokes
Carefully delineated lines and contours
35
The first Impressionist painting, Impression: Sunrise, was by:
Pierre-August Renoir
Claude Monet
Camille Pissarro
Mary Cassatt
36
The following cafés are associated with Existentialism
Le café Flore
Les Deux Magots
Le Procope
Le café Dome
37
Who was inducted into the Panthéon Monument in 2021
Colette
Miles Davis
Josephine Baker
James Baldwin
38
The Bataclan is:
Was subject to a terrorist attack in 2015
A restaurant
A football stadium
A Parisian concert venue
39
Impressionists preferred using artificial light
False
True
40
During WWII, Germany occupied France in 1940
False
True
41
Charles Worth was:
An engineer
An architect
A British couturier based in Paris
A milliner
42
Laïcité means the following
An assimilation with Catholicism
A secular state
Separation of Church and State
A fundamental tenet of Republican citizenship
43
Which writer was not an expat American in Paris
John Steinbeck
Langston Hughes
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ernest Hemingway
44
The designer of the Paris Metro is called
Fulgence Bienvenuë
Paul Poiret
Hector Guimard
Jules Cheret
45
Paris Metro Entrances are examples of Art Nouveau
False
True
46
Who was not an Impressionist painter?
Gustave Caillebotte
Claude Monet
Edouard Manet
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
47
Napoleon III was the following:
A King
An Emperor
A President
A Tsar
48
The Eiffel Tower was built in:
1 year
5 years
2 years
4 years
49
Which author called Paris "A moveable feast"
Gertrude Stein
Ernest Hemingway
Virginia Wolfe
James Baldwin
50
The following statements represent Existentialist philosophy:
Essence precedes existence
Life is absurd
We are bound by fate
Existence precedes essence