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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. What are the Salon committee's reactions to Claude's Dead Child painting?
(a) disgust or pity.
(b) positive or skeptical.
(c) shock or amusement.
(d) excited or indifferent.

2. What are the paintings that repulse Christine in Claude's studio?
(a) the scary themes.
(b) the nude men.
(c) the distorted faces.
(d) the nude women.

3. Now that Sandoz is married, what role does his wife, Henriette, play in the household?
(a) she stays upstairs with Sandoz's mother.
(b) she supervises the dinners and takes care of Sandoz mother.
(c) she sits quietly and says nothing during the meetings.
(d) she stays in the kitchen cooking the different dishes.

4. Where does Claude find Ganière after the dinner at Pierre's house?
(a) sleeping under a bridge across the Seine.
(b) walking the street in front of Irma's house.
(c) at their old table in the Café Baudequin.
(d) sitting alone on a park bench.

5. What is Jory's excuse for not writing about anyone in the group?
(a) he thinks his endorsement would hurt them.
(b) he is being paid to write only about Beauz-Arts artists.
(c) they are unpopular and he is not writing for his own paper.
(d) he is waiting to spring them on the public later.

Short Answer Questions

1. What two agonies does Sandoz mention that Claude is all too familiar with?

2. What is Bongrand's lament about art dealers?

3. In spite of opposition, how does Sandoz continue to write?

4. Although Sandoz's novels are selling well, what is happening in literary circles?

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

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