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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11, Part 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is it about Claude's use of colors that Christine has difficulty understanding?
(a) red bananas and yellow apples.
(b) yellow skies and pink clouds.
(c) blue in the poplar trees and mauve in the ground.
(d) people with purple skin.

2. What does Claude seem to taunt Christine about from gossip he has heard?
(a) that God cursed her with an unnatural child.
(b) that she was too stupid to find a job.
(c) that a man was coming to the studio when Claude was away.
(d) that Mme. Vandaze died and left fortunes to her servants.

3. Who now has a mansion near Claude's and Christine's cottage?
(a) Pierre Sandoz.
(b) the Margaillan family.
(c) Bongrand.
(d) Irma Bécot.

4. What tragedy strikes the Lantier household one night?
(a) Claude falls from his scaffolding.
(b) Christine has a miscarriage.
(c) Jacques dies alone in his bed.
(d) the studio catches on fire.

5. How does Claude think Irma has changed?
(a) from an innocent girl into a weathered hag.
(b) from a possible model into a fat disaster.
(c) from a common guttersnipe into a "courtesan by Titian."
(d) from a trollop into a lady.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Claude and Christine go on a short trip?

2. What famous artist joins the group at Pierre's house?

3. Who is the journalist who drops in while Pierre and Claude are visiting Mahoudeau and Chaîne?

4. What does an old man in the woods offer Claude and Christine?

5. Why has the herbalist's shop seen better days?

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