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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is it about Claude's use of colors that Christine has difficulty understanding?
(a) blue in the poplar trees and mauve in the ground.
(b) yellow skies and pink clouds.
(c) people with purple skin.
(d) red bananas and yellow apples.

2. Why were girls not allowed in their group of friends back in the village?
(a) because of their shyness.
(b) because they were in an all boys school.
(c) because they slept on the ground overnight.
(d) because of their dislike of girls.

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

4. Why does Christine resist sightseeing in Paris with Claude?
(a) she worries he will take her to a hotel.
(b) she worries she will lose track of time.
(c) she still worries about being out with a man.
(d) she worries she might run into her employer.

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

6. What does the lusty Jory like about Mahoudeau's sculpture of the Grape Picker?
(a) her feet and hands.
(b) the life-like look of her face.
(c) the amount of clay used in the mold.
(d) her ample bosom and thick thighs.

7. How long does Christine stay away after her first return visit to Claude's studio?
(a) three weeks.
(b) a year.
(c) several months.
(d) two days.

8. When was the beginnings of the Bohemian lifestyle of Claude and Pierre?
(a) after they were rejected by the École des Beaux-Arts.
(b) after they met Delacroix.
(c) during their school days.
(d) when they moved to Paris.

9. Where does Claude go to find Dubuche, the aspiring architect?
(a) Pierre Sandoz's house.
(b) the École des Beaux-Arts.
(c) the bistro where they often meet.
(d) Duquersonnièr's studio.

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

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

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

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

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

15. What problem do Sandoz and Dubuche have with Claude's Open Air painting?
(a) the drabness of the color.
(b) the fact that the man is only seen from the back.
(c) the idea of nude women in the park.
(d) the clothed man with nude women.

Short Answer Questions

1. What suggestion does Pierre make to Claude about Christine?

2. What happens when the young woman wakes up?

3. Besides Jory, who else is vying for the attention of Mathilde?

4. Because it is Thursday, what event will take place in the evening?

5. Which of Claude's friends do he and Christine see in the street?

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