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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. What do Claude and Christine plan to do?
(a) open a small shop and give up art.
(b) to leave the city and go live in the country house.
(c) form a commune in the country.
(d) sell nude paintings of Christine to tourists.

2. What is the subject of Fagerolles's latest painting?
(a) blue poplars and mauve ground.
(b) an actress looking in the mirror.
(c) a clothed man and a nude woman.
(d) a clown on a highwire.

3. What ironic switch in attitude occurs when Christine finally agrees to go in public with Claude?
(a) now he worries that they will run into Irma.
(b) now he worries that they will run into her employer.
(c) now he worries they will run into his friends.
(d) now he worries that he has no money.

4. What was the occupation of Mahoudeau before he came to Paris?
(a) a stone cutter.
(b) a school teacher.
(c) a grocer.
(d) a blacksmith.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Back in Paris, Claude returns to walking the streets and leaves what up to Christine?

3. Because it is Thursday, what event will take place in the evening?

4. What does Bongrand have to say about Fagerolles's painting?

5. How does Claude often see himself artistically?

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