Q 01/05

Mary Cassatt lost some of her early paintings in an 1871 fire that devastated which American city?

A) Boston

B) Chicago

C) Baltimore

D) San Francisco

Answer · why

B) Chicago

Chicago was where Cassatt had gone to try her luck when the Great Fire of 1871 struck. Soon afterward a bishop's commission to copy paintings in Italy...

Q 02/05

Which small dog breed, seen in Little Girl in a Blue Armchair, did Mary Cassatt keep for the rest of her life?

A) Yorkshire Terrier

B) French Bulldog

C) King Charles Spaniel

D) Brussels Griffon

Answer · why

D) Brussels Griffon

Brussels Griffon pups became her lifelong companions after Edgar Degas gave her one bred by a fellow Impressionist. One lies on an armchair beside the...

Q 03/05

Mary Cassatt often modeled for her friend Edgar Degas in a series of pictures showing women trying on what?

A) Hats

B) Gloves

C) Shoes

D) Necklaces

Answer · why

A) Hats

Hats fill the millinery-shop pictures for which Cassatt frequently posed. The two painters kept studios less than a five-minute walk apart, and Degas ...

Q 04/05

In 1966, Mary Cassatt's painting The Boating Party was reproduced on which everyday American item?

A) A banknote

B) A half-dollar coin

C) A postage stamp

D) A savings bond

Answer · why

C) A postage stamp

A postage stamp carried The Boating Party across America in 1966. The original canvas, nearly three by four feet, is one of the largest and most ambit...

Q 05/05

A 1910 trip to which country left Mary Cassatt feeling crushed by the strength of its ancient art?

A) Greece

B) India

C) Mexico

D) Egypt

Answer · why

D) Egypt

Egypt overwhelmed her: Cassatt called its ancient art the greatest the past has left us and doubted her own hands could ever paint its effect. A crisi...