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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11, Part 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Claude's friends in Paris think is the ideal life for an artist?
(a) to live in the country and pile up masterpieces.
(b) to paint in the country but live in the city.
(c) to walk the busy streets of Paris.
(d) to take up farming and give up painting.

2. How does Claude behave around Christine?
(a) he is awkward.
(b) he is comfortable.
(c) he is forward.
(d) he is agitated.

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

4. Why does Claude think his painting of the dead Jacques may be accepted by the Salon committee?
(a) Fagerolles promises to get it accepted.
(b) Bongrand is now head of the committee.
(c) this painting is more like the classics.
(d) he submits it under an assumed name.

5. Where does Claude want to exhibit his painting?
(a) the Luxemburg Museum.
(b) the Salon at the École des Beaux-Arts.
(c) on the sidewalks of Paris.
(d) the Louvre.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long does Christine stay away after her first return visit to Claude's studio?

2. Why were girls not allowed in their group of friends back in the village?

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

4. How does Zola paint Claude Lantier's angst?

5. Where do Claude and Christine go on a short trip?

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