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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12, Part 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bongrand do before Claude sees his work hanging in the Salon des Refusés?
(a) he laughs in Claude's face.
(b) he withdraws his own painting.
(c) he gives Claude high praise.
(d) he takes Claude to tea.

2. What is "varnishing day"?
(a) the day they frame the paintings.
(b) the day they allow art critics to view the paintings.
(c) the day they redecorate the Salon.
(d) the day before the Salon opens.

3. How does Claude often see himself artistically?
(a) as needing more study.
(b) as impotent.
(c) as the greatest living artist.
(d) as ahead of his time.

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

5. Why does Sandoz stay away from Claude for a time?
(a) he and Henriette are having problems.
(b) he is giving Claude the cold shoulder.
(c) his novels are not selling now.
(d) he is grieving for his dead mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the subject of Fagerolles's latest painting?

2. What is Claude thinking about as he walks home late at night?

3. What happens when the young woman wakes up?

4. What convinces Claude he still has a vestige of romanticism in his veins?

5. What are the paintings that repulse Christine in Claude's studio?

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