Q 01/05
A) Maisons-Laffitte
B) Neuilly-sur-Seine
C) Villefranche-sur-Mer
D) Menton
Answer · why
His father, a lawyer and amateur painter, died by suicide when Jean was nine.
Q 02/05
A) The Sleeping Poet
B) The Frivolous Prince
C) The Enfant Terrible
D) The Blue God
Answer · why
He had published his first poems, Aladdin's Lamp, at nineteen and left home at fifteen.
Q 03/05
A) Flew reconnaissance aircraft
B) Worked as a war artist in London
C) Drove an ambulance for the Red Cross
D) Served as an infantry officer
Answer · why
It was then that he met Apollinaire, Picasso and Modigliani.
Q 04/05
A) Léonide Massine
B) Vaslav Nijinsky
C) Léon Bakst
D) Sergei Diaghilev
Answer · why
The Ballets Russes had already staged Le Dieu bleu, which Cocteau made with Bakst in 1912.
Q 05/05
A) Pablo Picasso
B) Henri Matisse
C) Georges Braque
D) Amedeo Modigliani
Answer · why
Erik Satie wrote the music; the premiere was at the Théâtre du Châtelet on 18 May 1917.
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