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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens on the wedding night?
(a) Claude is unable to make love to Christine.
(b) Christine goes to bed alone and Claude sketches.
(c) Jacques gets sick and Christine has to stay with him.
(d) It is like old times in the country.

2. How is the Dead Child painting finally approved for hanging in the Salon?
(a) Fagerolles uses his "charity" vote.
(b) it is approved by mistake.
(c) it is considered a real masterpiece at last.
(d) Bongrand demands it.

3. Why has Dubuche been exiled to his father-in-law's home in the country?
(a) it became clear that he really has no talent for architecture.
(b) one of his designs became a laughing stock in Paris.
(c) he was never successful and now cares for his wife and sickly children.
(d) the pressure of building houses caused him to have a breakdown.

4. What is the irony of Sandoz's new house?
(a) it has become a shrine to his late mother.
(b) it is an eclectic and old fashioned abode for a very modern writer.
(c) it is in the same area as Irma's and Fagerolles's houses.
(d) it is large and ostentacious.

5. Why does Claude do a smaller version of his large painting?
(a) to check his colors.
(b) to submit to the Salon.
(c) to practice his new brush strokes.
(d) to show Bongrand.

6. When Christine suggests they go away somewhere to be happy, what is Claude's reply?
(a) that he will think about it.
(b) that he can only be happy in his studio.
(c) hat he does not want to be happy, he only wants to paint.
(d) that she sounds just like Sandoz.

7. Who generally shows up on varnishing day?
(a) the artists whose works are included.
(b) only the Paris art critics.
(c) the riff-raff of Paris.
(d) the elite of Paris society.

8. How does Christine began to feel about her relationship with Claude?
(a) that she is playing second fiddle to a painting.
(b) that she made a mistake falling in love with Claude.
(c) that she knows how to get him back.
(d) that she has grown tired and ugly.

9. Who takes charge of the funeral and getting Christine to the hospital?
(a) Bongrand.
(b) Fagerolles.
(c) Ganière.
(d) Sandoz.

10. Again under the spell of Paris, what does Claude do?
(a) makes sketches and plans work that never gets started.
(b) stays as far away from Jacques as possible.
(c) talks a lot about his current work.
(d) paints night and day on his new masterpiece.

11. To stay close to Claude and fight her rival, the painting, what does Christine decide to do?
(a) discourage Claude by saying it is not good.
(b) take a knife to the painting.
(c) clean his brushes and make great meals.
(d) be his nude model for the painting.

12. Why is Sandoz being successful as a novelist?
(a) he has started turning out traditional prose.
(b) he uses Claude's art on the cover of his books.
(c) he refuses to change his ideas about modern writing.
(d) he is no longer controversial.

13. What is the subject of Claude's snow scene?
(a) two ragged urchins eating stolen apples.
(b) two children building a snowman.
(c) snow on the tops of Paris buildings.
(d) a fine carriage drawn by two white horses.

14. For a while, how does Claude make a fairly good living?
(a) painting flower still lifes for British tourists.
(b) doing sketches for a newspaper.
(c) copying the old masters.
(d) painting portraits of children.

15. Why is Christine afraid when she wakes to find Claude not in the bed with her?
(a) she thinks he is working too hard.
(b) she thinks he is destroying his paintings.
(c) she thinks he might be suicidal.
(d) she thinks he might be leaving her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is it that Claude does not know while he waits to see if the Dead Child will be included in the Salon?

2. What does Sandoz tray to talk Claude out of doing?

3. What are the Salon committee's reactions to Claude's Dead Child painting?

4. What distresses Christine when Claude returns home from the Salon?

5. When Sandoz comes to take Claude away from the studio, who do they find as a barker at a carnival?

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