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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Christine re-enter Claude's life?
(a) they meet accidentally at the Louvre.
(b) she drops by with a thank you gift.
(c) she commissions a painting.
(d) she asks him to pay her for modeling.

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

3. What is Mahoudeau's comment after the sculpture falls apart?
(a) God must be telling me something.
(b) I didn't like it anyway.
(c) there's plenty of time to start over.
(d) this is what poverty gets you.

4. What causes Claude and Pierre to nudge each other in front of the Herbal Shop?
(a) the smell coming from the shop.
(b) their friend, Mahoudeau, coming out of the shop.
(c) the thin and dark woman staring at them from the shop.
(d) the ugly sculpture of a starving child.

5. How is Claude received at Duquersonnièr's studio?
(a) by being thrown out of the studio.
(b) by being ignored because they are all busy.
(c) with joy and lots of pats on the back.
(d) with antagonism from the architecture students.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Claude suggest that Christine stay with Mme. Vandaze?

2. What does Claude seem to taunt Christine about from gossip he has heard?

3. Who does Jory insist that Claude go with him to see?

4. Where does Claude go to find Dubuche, the aspiring architect?

5. Who is the former shepherd from near Plassans whose patron sent him to Paris?

(see the answer key)

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