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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. As the novel opens, what is the condition of the weather?
(a) a clear, starry night.
(b) a snow storm.
(c) a dust storm.
(d) a rainstorm.

4. How does the young woman want to sleep?
(a) in her wet clothes on the floor.
(b) in her wet clothes sitting up in a chair.
(c) sitting up wrapped in a blanket.
(d) in the bed with Claude.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Claude do the next morning as the young woman sleeps?

2. What was the occupation of Mahoudeau before he came to Paris?

3. What happens when the young woman wakes up?

4. How do the young men of the Open Air movement see themselves?

5. What does Christine do just before the deadline to enter a painting at the Salon?

(see the answer key)

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