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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long does Christine stay away after her first return visit to Claude's studio?
(a) several months.
(b) three weeks.
(c) a year.
(d) two days.

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

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

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the young woman want to sleep?

2. How does Zola describe Irma Bécot?

3. When was the beginnings of the Bohemian lifestyle of Claude and Pierre?

4. Why does Claude go into one of his rages after Christine leaves?

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

(see the answer key)

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