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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does Claude suggest that Christine stay with Mme. Vandaze?
(a) she is old and may not need Christine long.
(b) she is old and may leave an inheritance for Christine.
(c) she is old and may start needing her more.
(d) she is old and it is not right to leave her.

3. Returning to Paris, what does Christine want to do?
(a) break off her relationship with Claude.
(b) resign her position and stay with Claude.
(c) find a priest and get married.
(d) get Claude to paint fans for tourists.

4. Although Sandoz's novels are selling well, what is happening in literary circles?
(a) he is being praised as the new style novelist.
(b) he is being taken off of library shelves.
(c) he is getting trounced by the critics.
(d) his books are being burned.

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

6. Who is the friend now enrolled at the Beaux-Arts?
(a) Irma.
(b) Christine.
(c) Fagerolles.
(d) Pierre.

7. Realizing the people are laughing at his painting, what is Claude's reaction?
(a) he does not care about their reactions.
(b) he snatches his painting off the wall.
(c) he storms out of the Salon.
(d) his old insecurities about his talent return.

8. Now that Sandoz is married, what role does his wife, Henriette, play in the household?
(a) she sits quietly and says nothing during the meetings.
(b) she supervises the dinners and takes care of Sandoz mother.
(c) she stays upstairs with Sandoz's mother.
(d) she stays in the kitchen cooking the different dishes.

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

10. Beside the clothed man and the naked women, what are the people criticizing?
(a) his savage color combinations.
(b) his use of the color blue to indicate daylight.
(c) his oddly shaped trees.
(d) his heavy brush strokes.

11. What two agonies does Sandoz mention that Claude is all too familiar with?
(a) fame and poverty.
(b) criticism and doubt.
(c) time and money.
(d) torment and dispair.

12. What reawakens in Claude and Sandoz with their renewed friendship?
(a) their need for nature hikes.
(b) their sense of competition.
(c) their old doubts about their work.
(d) their old desire for fame.

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

14. What self imposed time limit has Claude put on finishing his painting called Open Air?
(a) six months.
(b) nine months.
(c) one year.
(d) six weeks.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who do Claude, Pierre, and Jory find sitting at a table making sketches with drops of beer?

2. What do Claude's friends in Paris think is the ideal life for an artist?

3. What is Pierre Sandoz doing for Claude?

4. What does an old man in the woods offer Claude and Christine?

5. What gift does Christine send Claude just before his opening in the Salon des Refusés?

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