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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is it that Claude does not know while he waits to see if the Dead Child will be included in the Salon?
(a) how popular he has suddenly become.
(b) how Bongand exerted his influence on the committee.
(c) how the new committe has changed its ideas.
(d) what Fagerolles does to get it included.

2. Why does Claude think his painting of the dead Jacques may be accepted by the Salon committee?
(a) Bongrand is now head of the committee.
(b) Fagerolles promises to get it accepted.
(c) this painting is more like the classics.
(d) he submits it under an assumed name.

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

4. What time does Claude return to his studio home?
(a) the next day.
(b) about three in the morning.
(c) about dawn.
(d) a week later.

5. What distresses Christine when Claude returns home from the Salon?
(a) his strange and cold manner.
(b) his refusal to take her to the Salon.
(c) his attempt to destroy his large unfinished canvas.
(d) his unusually happy manner.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who lives directly across from Fagerolles's small but well appointed mansion?

2. What happens on the wedding night?

3. What is the site that arouses Claude's enthusiasm after failing again to be included in the Salon?

4. Again under the spell of Paris, what does Claude do?

5. What do Sandoz and Bongrand have to say about Claude's early works of art?

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