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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, Part 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Claude suggest that Christine stay with Mme. Vandaze?
(a) she is old and may not need Christine long.
(b) she is old and may leave an inheritance for Christine.
(c) she is old and it is not right to leave her.
(d) she is old and may start needing her more.

2. What ironic switch in attitude occurs when Christine finally agrees to go in public with Claude?
(a) now he worries that they will run into her employer.
(b) now he worries that they will run into Irma.
(c) now he worries that he has no money.
(d) now he worries they will run into his friends.

3. Why does Christine resist sightseeing in Paris with Claude?
(a) she still worries about being out with a man.
(b) she worries she might run into her employer.
(c) she worries he will take her to a hotel.
(d) she worries she will lose track of time.

4. How does Christine re-enter Claude's life?
(a) she drops by with a thank you gift.
(b) she asks him to pay her for modeling.
(c) they meet accidentally at the Louvre.
(d) she commissions a painting.

5. What problem do Sandoz and Dubuche have with Claude's Open Air painting?
(a) the idea of nude women in the park.
(b) the drabness of the color.
(c) the clothed man with nude women.
(d) the fact that the man is only seen from the back.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Christine able to come to Paris from Passy?

2. What is the condition of the clothes the young artists wear?

3. What does an old man in the woods offer Claude and Christine?

4. As the novel opens, what is the condition of the weather?

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

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