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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. After renewing his association with Sandoz, what is Claude incessantly talking about?
(a) people in Paris Christine has never known.
(b) going to study in Italy.
(c) the École des Beaux-Arts.
(d) how Mahoudeau and Chaîne killed off Jabouille.

3. Where does Irma say Fagerolles and Jory grew out of?
(a) the same school of ambitious thought.
(b) the same mansion in the country.
(c) the same cabbage patch.
(d) the same gap in the pavement.

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

5. What is the subject of Fagerolles's latest painting?
(a) a clothed man and a nude woman.
(b) an actress looking in the mirror.
(c) a clown on a highwire.
(d) blue poplars and mauve ground.

6. In spite of opposition, how does Sandoz continue to write?
(a) copying the great literary masters.
(b) using atrange and unexplained vocabulary.
(c) avoiding any controversial subject.
(d) honestly and exactly as he feels.

7. Who does Claude see who pretends he has not seen Claude's painting?
(a) Irma.
(b) Fagerolles.
(c) Dubuche.
(d) Mahoudeau.

8. 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 it is not right to leave her.
(c) she is old and may leave an inheritance for Christine.
(d) she is old and may start needing her more.

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

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

11. What famous artist joins the group at Pierre's house?
(a) Hugo.
(b) Delacroix.
(c) Matisse.
(d) Bongrand.

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

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

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

15. How does Claude behave around Christine?
(a) he is agitated.
(b) he is forward.
(c) he is awkward.
(d) he is comfortable.

Short Answer Questions

1. When is the laughter the loudest?

2. Where does Claude want to exhibit his painting?

3. What does Christine do just before the deadline to enter a painting at the Salon?

4. How does the young woman want to sleep?

5. What works are shown in the Salon des Refusés?

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