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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. After renewing his association with Sandoz, what is Claude incessantly talking about?
2. How does the young woman want to sleep?
3. Why does Christine resist sightseeing in Paris with Claude?
4. What is Pierre Sandoz's vocation?
5. What do Claude's friends in Paris think is the ideal life for an artist?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Dubuche's appearance at the Thursday night gathering indicate his ultimate destruction as an avant-guarde architect?
2. How is the neglect of Jacques symbolized?
3. How does Zola show that the young woman is a proper young lady and not a trollop as Claude suspects?
4. Describe how Claude further distances himself from Christine and Jacques.
5. What is Claude's behavior after a party at Sandoz's house that alarms Christine?
6. How does the behavior of Dubuche foreshadow the deterioration of the Open Air group of young Bohemian artists?
7. What is Claude's goal for gaining acceptance of his art?
8. How is history repeated with Claude and his huge canvas?
9. Discuss the Salon des Refusés.
10. How is the decision made to return to Paris?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay of at least two typed, double-spaced pages on the topic of Claude Lantier's Reverence for Nude Women in Art. The three specific areas of the novel that deal with this topic should be the main points of your essay: (1) looking at Christine posing nude for the first time, Zola says that Claude's "heart pounded in his breast as it might have done in the presence of a naked saint." (2) Zola later tells the reader that Claude saw his nude woman in his paintings as a symbol for Paris. (3) Finally, Claude is unable to recapture the woman in his final painting and ultimately commits suicide for the love of her.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay of at least two typed, double-spaced pages on the topic of The Tragedy of Dubuche. The main points of the essay are (1) why Dubuche was successful at the studio of Duquersonnière, (2) why he failed after joining with Margaillan, and (3) what he was reduced to after failing as an architect.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay of at least two typed, double-spaced pages on the topic of contradictory moral values during the 19th century. Use Henriette and Christine versus Irma and Mathilde to point out these contradictions. Be sure to include how Christine manages to maintain her moral character even though she lives many years with Claude before they are married. Also include how Irma is tolerated in polite society whereas Christine is the subject of gossip and condemnation.
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