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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Irma become angry with Claude during a visit to his studio?
(a) he rejects her as a lover.
(b) he rejects her as an art critic.
(c) he rejects her as a patron.
(d) he rejects her as a nude model.

2. How does Zola describe Irma Bécot?
(a) a virginal beauty looking for a husband.
(b) a trollop with the makings of a future Parisian courtesan.
(c) a young girl being eaten alive by the city of Paris.
(d) an important art critic of the day.

3. Why does Claude go into one of his rages after Christine leaves?
(a) because he had not taken advantage of her.
(b) because he cannot find anything she had put away.
(c) because he lost the early morning light to paint by.
(d) because of the effect she had on him.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Pierre Sandoz doing for Claude?

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

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

4. Why does Christine resist sightseeing in Paris with Claude?

5. How does Claude behave around Christine?

(see the answer key)

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