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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What is Jory's excuse for not writing about anyone in the group?
(a) they are unpopular and he is not writing for his own paper.
(b) he thinks his endorsement would hurt them.
(c) he is being paid to write only about Beauz-Arts artists.
(d) he is waiting to spring them on the public later.

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

6. What strange commission does Claude get from Malgras?
(a) a still life painting of books.
(b) a still life painting of a lobster
(c) a small painting of Christine.
(d) a painting of ducks.

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

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

9. What is Claude thinking about as he walks home late at night?
(a) his unfinished canvas in his studio.
(b) a woman he met walking in the rain.
(c) how he is going to pay his rent.
(d) his friends he hasn't seen lately.

10. Who does Jory insist that Claude go with him to see?
(a) Ganière.
(b) Irma Bécot.
(c) Mathilde.
(d) Bongrand.

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

12. What style of art is preferred by the École des Beaux-Arts?
(a) Cubism.
(b) Impressionism.
(c) Romanticism.
(d) Expressionism.

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

14. What does Christine do just before the deadline to enter a painting at the Salon?
(a) she poses in a wet sheet for Claude.
(b) she buys him a new set of paints.
(c) she urges him to use Irma as a model.
(d) she removes her clothes and poses nude for Claude.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How has Claude's past prepared him for living in the country?

2. What is the condition of the clothes the young artists wear?

3. What do Claude and Christine visit after they find an old boat?

4. Who does Claude see who pretends he has not seen Claude's painting?

5. Why do they return late to Paris?

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