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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, Part 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Claude do the next morning as the young woman sleeps?
(a) he wakes her up and sends her away.
(b) he removes the blanket covering her.
(c) he goes out for croisants.
(d) he makes sketches of her lying in the bed.

2. Which of Claude's friends do he and Christine see in the street?
(a) Irma and Jory.
(b) Sandoz and Dubuche.
(c) Chaîne and Pierre.
(d) Mahoudeau and Mathilde.

3. Who is the former shepherd from near Plassans whose patron sent him to Paris?
(a) Malgras.
(b) Chaîne.
(c) Dubuche.
(d) Mahoudeau.

4. What does Christine not want to discuss with Claude?
(a) their lovemaking.
(b) the money she keeps hidden from him.
(c) their not being married.
(d) the job she left to be with him.

5. What is Pierre Sandoz's vocation?
(a) he is a sculptor doing garden gnomes.
(b) he is a writer aspiring to sell his first novel.
(c) he is a musician composing new music.
(d) he is a mathematician who loves art.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the ugly family walking along with Dubuche?

2. How does Zola describe Irma Bécot?

3. Where does Claude want to exhibit his painting?

4. Besides Jory, who else is vying for the attention of Mathilde?

5. Rejected for the Prix de Rome, what is Fagerolles now painting?

(see the answer key)

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