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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is it about Claude's use of colors that Christine has difficulty understanding?
(a) blue in the poplar trees and mauve in the ground.
(b) people with purple skin.
(c) red bananas and yellow apples.
(d) yellow skies and pink clouds.

2. Why is Christine able to come to Paris from Passy?
(a) her employer gives her time off.
(b) she slips out after her employer goes to bed.
(c) she carries the mail for her employer.
(d) she has no contract with her employer.

3. Why does Claude take the young woman to his studio?
(a) he wants her to sleep with him.
(b) he wants to use her as a madel.
(c) he expects to hire her as a maid.
(d) he feels he cannot leave her outside in the storm.

4. What was the occupation of Mahoudeau before he came to Paris?
(a) a blacksmith.
(b) a grocer.
(c) a stone cutter.
(d) a school teacher.

5. When does Claude finally break down and admit his hurt and disappointment?
(a) when he returns home and finds Christine there.
(b) when he is alone with Sandoz.
(c) when a small child begins to laugh at the painting.
(d) when Bongrand tries to cheer him up.

6. What do Claude's friends in Paris think is the ideal life for an artist?
(a) to live in the country and pile up masterpieces.
(b) to paint in the country but live in the city.
(c) to take up farming and give up painting.
(d) to walk the busy streets of Paris.

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

8. What does an old man in the woods offer Claude and Christine?
(a) some peaches grown in his orchard.
(b) to give them a ride to the train.
(c) to rent his house in the woods.
(d) a place to wait till the train comes.

9. Why does Sandoz not visit Claude and Christine in the country after August?
(a) his mother becomes gravely ill.
(b) he is tired of making the trip.
(c) he is about to publish his first novel.
(d) he is getting married.

10. What does Mahoudeau tell Claude there is little market for these days?
(a) garden sculpture.
(b) Grape Pickers.
(c) large classic statues.
(d) angels and saints.

11. Who is Mathilde Jabouille?
(a) a wealthy patron ordering a bust of herself.
(b) a common trollop who loves Mahoudeau.
(c) the woman Pierre and Claude saw in the herbalist's window.
(d) the fat wife of the skinny herbalist.

12. Why was Mahoudeau sent to Paris from Plassans?
(a) he won a sculpture contest.
(b) he was courting the mayor's daughter.
(c) he was to become an architect.
(d) he lost a bet.

13. What are the needs of Jory that Mathilde fulfills so easily?
(a) his poverty and his insecurity.
(b) his limited time and his ignorance.
(c) his sexual addiction and his miserliness.
(d) his ambition and his carelessness.

14. What is Bongrand's lament about art dealers?
(a) that artists get no credit for their work.
(b) that art is fought over by bank notes.
(c) that artists have no chance to improve.
(d) that art has become important to the rich.

15. What does Bongrand have to say about Fagerolles's painting?
(a) it is fit only for a French postcard.
(b) it is pandering to the masses.
(c) it is little more than a photograph.
(d) it is a shameless copy of Claude's work.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sandoz usually have with him when he goes out?

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

3. Who is the journalist who drops in while Pierre and Claude are visiting Mahoudeau and Chaîne?

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

5. While Pierre and Dubuche are in the studio, what does Claude almost do?

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