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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What insult is thrown at Deslauriers that started the schoolyard fight that begins his friendship with Frederic?
(a) Rich boy.
(b) Rat.
(c) Big boy.
(d) Beggar's brat.

2. What become his principle interests after Deslauriers loses interest in metaphysics?
(a) Aesthetics and Ancient Greece.
(b) Psychoanalysis and the Bolshevik Revolution.
(c) Economics and the French Revolution.
(d) Reconstruction and the American Revolution.

3. What business does Jacques Arnoux take up after leaving the art business?
(a) Publishing.
(b) Entertainment.
(c) Ceramics.
(d) Banking.

4. Where does Frederic speculate that the beautiful woman may have come from?
(a) Andalusia or the West Indies.
(b) Mexico or El Salvador.
(c) Australia or the Azores Islands.
(d) India or China.

5. How does Frederic prepare to become an artist at the beginning of Chapter 5?
(a) He visits art museums.
(b) He buys paints, brushes, and an easel.
(c) He reads books on aesthetics.
(d) He studies the great masters.

Short Answer Questions

1. What award did Frederic Moreau win at his school that made his mother proud?

2. What topics does Frederic discuss with the man he meets on the ship?

3. What title did Dambreuse have that he dropped?

4. What does Frederic do with the money he gets from selling his new outfit to a second-hand clothes dealer?

5. Why does Frederic decide not to make a place for Deslauriers in his new townhouse?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Deslauriers' reaction to Frederic's love for Madame Arnoux? What is Deslauriers' opinion of Marie Arnoux when he sees her in the Law Courts?

2. What does Pellerin do for a living? What type of books does he read? What is the secret he is trying to discover? Why?

3. What work does Charles Deslauriers do for his father? What unusual physical feature is a result of this work?

4. What is the relationship between Frederic and Deslauriers? How did it begin? What planes do they have for the future?

5. When Frederic and Deslauriers begin living together in Chapter 5, what is their relationship like? How do they divide the labor and costs of living?

6. How does Frederic's schoolmate Baptiste Martinon live? What is his attitude towards life? How does this contrast with Frederic's attitude?

7. Whom does Frederic immediately go to visit when he hears that Jacques Arnoux has gone to Germany? What surprise is waiting for him? Where is the person he was looking for?

8. What gift does Jacques Arnoux give his wife at her party? Why does he give her this particular gift? What is her reaction? What does she do with the gift during the carriage ride back to Paris?

9. What conflict does Frederic have when he finally receives his long-awaited invitation from the Dambreuses? How is it resolved?

10. What is Pellerin's attitude toward Realism? What does he believe the real goal of art to be? In his opinion, what is necessary for great art?

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