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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Claude think Irma has changed?
(a) from a common guttersnipe into a "courtesan by Titian."
(b) from a possible model into a fat disaster.
(c) from an innocent girl into a weathered hag.
(d) from a trollop into a lady.

2. What is the condition of the clothes the young artists wear?
(a) formal attire even in the daytime.
(b) down at the heel boots and threadbare jackets.
(c) purely rustic country style clothing.
(d) stuffily overdone.

3. What does Christine fear if Claude escorts her to the station?
(a) being seen with a man early in the morning.
(b) that he will try to take advantage of her.
(c) that he will ask to see her again.
(d) looking like a country hick.

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

5. What does Bongrand say is better than being at the top?
(a) the slide down the mountain.
(b) the journey to the top.
(c) being in the middle.
(d) being at the beginning.

6. Where do Claude and Christine go on a short trip?
(a) to Versailles.
(b) to the south of France near the sea.
(c) to the countryside and visit an inn called Bennecourt.
(d) to the countryside in Claude's home town.

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

8. What gift does Christine send Claude just before his opening in the Salon des Refusés?
(a) a pie she baked.
(b) a bouquet of white lilacs.
(c) a book of poetry.
(d) a lock of her hair.

9. Ready to leave, what does the young woman do?
(a) she begs Claude to escort her to the train station.
(b) she offers to cook breakfast.
(c) she attempts to clean up the studio.
(d) she asks Claude for money.

10. Why has the herbalist's shop seen better days?
(a) the owner ran away from the shop.
(b) the owner is dying of consumption.
(c) the owner has lost interest in the shop.
(d) the owner is trying to sell the shop.

11. Who has come to the Salon with Ganière?
(a) Irma Bécot.
(b) Mathilde.
(c) Fagerolles.
(d) Christine.

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

13. How do the young men of the Open Air movement see themselves?
(a) as successful artists.
(b) as conquerors of Paris.
(c) as misunderstood prophets.
(d) as lost in a wasteland.

14. What does Christine do the morning after she and Claude consummate their love?
(a) she lies to her employer that she has a friend coming to Paris.
(b) she goes to confession.
(c) she sends a letter to her employer that she is ill.
(d) she returns to Passy and resigns her position.

15. What is Pierre Sandoz doing for Claude?
(a) posing for the man in his painting.
(b) advising him on how to paint.
(c) bringing him food when he is broke.
(d) paying his rent on the studio.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does she notice about Claude's Open Air painting?

2. Who is Jory looking for when he bumps into Claude?

3. When is the laughter the loudest?

4. After renewing his association with Sandoz, what is Claude incessantly talking about?

5. What strange commission does Claude get from Malgras?

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