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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What causes Claude and Pierre to nudge each other in front of the Herbal Shop?
(a) their friend, Mahoudeau, coming out of the shop.
(b) the smell coming from the shop.
(c) the ugly sculpture of a starving child.
(d) the thin and dark woman staring at them from the shop.

2. What happens when the young woman wakes up?
(a) she quickly covers herself.
(b) she asks him to pay her for modelling.
(c) she begins to cry.
(d) she slaps Claude's face.

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

4. Who is the ugly family walking along with Dubuche?
(a) the family of Margaillan, a self-made millionaire.
(b) the family of Mathilde.
(c) the family of Dubuche's landlord.
(d) the family of Duquersonnièr.

5. How does Zola describe Irma Bécot?
(a) a young girl being eaten alive by the city of Paris.
(b) a virginal beauty looking for a husband.
(c) a trollop with the makings of a future Parisian courtesan.
(d) an important art critic of the day.

6. Where does Claude want to exhibit his painting?
(a) the Louvre.
(b) on the sidewalks of Paris.
(c) the Salon at the École des Beaux-Arts.
(d) the Luxemburg Museum.

7. Why is Claude told not to bring Christine to the Thursday night dinners?
(a) because she is too uncouth.
(b) because she needs to be with Jacques.
(c) because they are not married.
(d) because they quarrel too much.

8. Where does Claude go for a cheap lunch?
(a) the Fruit and Vegetable Shop.
(b) Pierre's house.
(c) a third rate wine-shop.
(d) a hotdog stand.

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

10. Who is the journalist who drops in while Pierre and Claude are visiting Mahoudeau and Chaîne?
(a) Irma.
(b) Mathilde.
(c) Jory.
(d) Hugo.

11. How does love win out over practicality?
(a) Christine murders Mme. Vandaze.
(b) Christine never returns to Passy.
(c) Christine gets MMe. Vandaze to move to Paris.
(d) Christine resigns her position and moves in with Claude.

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

13. Although Bongrand now only paints what interests him, why can the Beaux-Arts not overlook him?
(a) because of his great contributions of money.
(b) because of his great popularity.
(c) because of his reputation for vengeance.
(d) because of his earlier masterpiece.

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

15. Rejected for the Prix de Rome, what is Fagerolles now painting?
(a) copies of Claude's work.
(b) houses.
(c) postcards.
(d) slick, compromising pictures.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Chaîne working on while the others visit in Mahoudeau's studio?

2. What style of art is preferred by the École des Beaux-Arts?

3. Why were girls not allowed in their group of friends back in the village?

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

5. How is Claude received at Duquersonnièr's studio?

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