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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does love win out over practicality?
(a) Christine never returns to Passy.
(b) Christine resigns her position and moves in with Claude.
(c) Christine murders Mme. Vandaze.
(d) Christine gets MMe. Vandaze to move to Paris.

2. Why does Claude suggest that Christine stay with Mme. Vandaze?
(a) she is old and it is not right to leave her.
(b) she is old and may leave an inheritance for Christine.
(c) she is old and may start needing her more.
(d) she is old and may not need Christine long.

3. Where does Irma say Fagerolles and Jory grew out of?
(a) the same school of ambitious thought.
(b) the same mansion in the country.
(c) the same cabbage patch.
(d) the same gap in the pavement.

4. Besides Jory, who else is vying for the attention of Mathilde?
(a) Bongrand and Hugo.
(b) Pierre and Dubuche.
(c) Ganière and Dubuche.
(d) Chaîne and Mahoudeau.

5. What is Claude thinking about as he walks home late at night?
(a) how he is going to pay his rent.
(b) a woman he met walking in the rain.
(c) his unfinished canvas in his studio.
(d) his friends he hasn't seen lately.

6. What causes Claude and Pierre to nudge each other in front of the Herbal Shop?
(a) the ugly sculpture of a starving child.
(b) their friend, Mahoudeau, coming out of the shop.
(c) the thin and dark woman staring at them from the shop.
(d) the smell coming from the shop.

7. What does Claude do the next morning as the young woman sleeps?
(a) he makes sketches of her lying in the bed.
(b) he wakes her up and sends her away.
(c) he goes out for croisants.
(d) he removes the blanket covering her.

8. What do Claude and Christine plan to do?
(a) open a small shop and give up art.
(b) form a commune in the country.
(c) to leave the city and go live in the country house.
(d) sell nude paintings of Christine to tourists.

9. Why is Christine able to come to Paris from Passy?
(a) she has no contract with her employer.
(b) she carries the mail for her employer.
(c) her employer gives her time off.
(d) she slips out after her employer goes to bed.

10. Why does Christine pack up everything to return to Paris?
(a) to put Jacques in a good school.
(b) to get herself a job to support Claude.
(c) to live in a warm apartment during the winter.
(d) to save Claude and save her marriage.

11. How has Claude's past prepared him for living in the country?
(a) he returns to the nature walks he once had with Sandoz.
(b) he is just a country boy at heart.
(c) he knows how easy it is to hide in the country.
(d) he remembers the fresh air of the country.

12. How long does Christine stay away after her first return visit to Claude's studio?
(a) two days.
(b) a year.
(c) several months.
(d) three weeks.

13. How does Claude often see himself artistically?
(a) as needing more study.
(b) as ahead of his time.
(c) as impotent.
(d) as the greatest living artist.

14. What convinces Claude he still has a vestige of romanticism in his veins?
(a) his desire to see Christine again.
(b) his interest in a quaint Paris street.
(c) his desire to paint for tourists.
(d) his love of romantic literature.

15. While Pierre and Dubuche are in the studio, what does Claude almost do?
(a) throw them out.
(b) declare his painting finished.
(c) destroy his painting.
(d) commit suicide.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do they return late to Paris?

2. Who now has a mansion near Claude's and Christine's cottage?

3. How does Bongrand get rid of Naudet when he comes to buy one of his paintings?

4. What does Christine do just before the deadline to enter a painting at the Salon?

5. Who does Claude see who pretends he has not seen Claude's painting?

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