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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 are the Salon committee's reactions to Claude's Dead Child painting?
(a) shock or amusement.
(b) excited or indifferent.
(c) disgust or pity.
(d) positive or skeptical.

2. Why does Claude start going out alone to paint leaving Christine in the cottage?
(a) because she is pregnant.
(b) because he wants to be alone.
(c) because she talks too much.
(d) because she keeps questioning his colors.

3. Why does Claude go into one of his rages after Christine leaves?
(a) because he lost the early morning light to paint by.
(b) because he had not taken advantage of her.
(c) because of the effect she had on him.
(d) because he cannot find anything she had put away.

4. When is the laughter the loudest?
(a) when they reach Marhoudeau's sculpture.
(b) when they reach Dubuche's architectural drawing.
(c) when they reach Bongrand's picture.
(d) when they reach Claude's picture.

5. What tragedy strikes the Lantier household one night?
(a) Christine has a miscarriage.
(b) the studio catches on fire.
(c) Jacques dies alone in his bed.
(d) Claude falls from his scaffolding.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sandoz think might be better for true artists?

2. What is Claude's mistaken idea about Chaîne?

3. Who is the art dealer who has made a fortune out of buying pieces and manipulating their prices?

4. In spite of opposition, how does Sandoz continue to write?

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

(see the answer key)

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