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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 is the condition of the clothes the young artists wear?
(a) formal attire even in the daytime.
(b) purely rustic country style clothing.
(c) stuffily overdone.
(d) down at the heel boots and threadbare jackets.

2. What works are shown in the Salon des Refusés?
(a) those refused for the regular Salon showing.
(b) those eligible for special prizes.
(c) those from unknown artists.
(d) those too good to go in the regular Salon.

3. In spite of opposition, how does Sandoz continue to write?
(a) copying the great literary masters.
(b) avoiding any controversial subject.
(c) honestly and exactly as he feels.
(d) using atrange and unexplained vocabulary.

4. How does Zola paint Claude Lantier's angst?
(a) by his partying when he should be working.
(b) by his obsession with time.
(c) by his mood swings over his painting.
(d) by his desire to protect his paintings.

5. Who does Claude see who pretends he has not seen Claude's painting?
(a) Dubuche.
(b) Fagerolles.
(c) Irma.
(d) Mahoudeau.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Claude behave around Christine?

2. What did the boys indulge themselves in during their youth?

3. Why has the herbalist's shop seen better days?

4. Whose painting called The Lunch Party is a slick, commercial imitation of Claude's open air style?

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

(see the answer key)

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