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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10, Part 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) this painting is more like the classics.
(c) he submits it under an assumed name.
(d) Fagerolles promises to get it accepted.

2. What does Christine do just before the deadline to enter a painting at the Salon?
(a) she poses in a wet sheet for Claude.
(b) she removes her clothes and poses nude for Claude.
(c) she buys him a new set of paints.
(d) she urges him to use Irma as a model.

3. Why does Christine resist sightseeing in Paris with Claude?
(a) she worries she will lose track of time.
(b) she still worries about being out with a man.
(c) she worries he will take her to a hotel.
(d) she worries she might run into her employer.

4. 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 the new committe has changed its ideas.
(b) how popular he has suddenly become.
(c) what Fagerolles does to get it included.
(d) how Bongand exerted his influence on the committee.

5. What does she notice about Claude's Open Air painting?
(a) the nude woman's body looks like hers.
(b) her head has been painted on the body of a nude woman.
(c) there is no body under the head of a nude woman.
(d) there is no head on the body of a nude woman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the Salon committee's reactions to Claude's Dead Child painting?

2. How does Claude behave around Christine?

3. What painting is almost rejected before it is discovered to be one by a famous artist?

4. What are the paintings that repulse Christine in Claude's studio?

5. Why does Irma become angry with Claude during a visit to his studio?

(see the answer key)

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