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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Christine awakes to find Claude gone, where does she find him?
(a) dressing to go out into the cold.
(b) lying in Jacques's small bed.
(c) sitting by the fire drinking wine.
(d) hanging from the ladder in front of his painting.

2. What purchases does Claude make to get started with his painting?
(a) large paper and new pencils to make his sketches.
(b) a large frame and seamless canvas.
(c) new paints and brushes.
(d) new lights and a heater for the studio.

3. After the Salon, how does Claude behave?
(a) he refuses to see anyone.
(b) he throws himself back into his large painting.
(c) he puts on a façade of not caring.
(d) he happily shows himself in public.

4. What distresses Christine when Claude returns home from the Salon?
(a) his unusually happy manner.
(b) his attempt to destroy his large unfinished canvas.
(c) his strange and cold manner.
(d) his refusal to take her to the Salon.

5. What does Claude seem to taunt Christine about from gossip he has heard?
(a) that God cursed her with an unnatural child.
(b) that she was too stupid to find a job.
(c) that a man was coming to the studio when Claude was away.
(d) that Mme. Vandaze died and left fortunes to her servants.

6. What is the wedding ceremony for Claude and Christine like?
(a) quick and exciting.
(b) plain but meaningful.
(c) rushed and without emotion.
(d) elaborate and joyful.

7. Why does Mahoudeau's sculpture fall over?
(a) Claude accidentally bumps into it.
(b) as the room warms, the clay carving melts.
(c) an earthquake shakes his studio.
(d) Chaîne smashes it out of jealousy over Mathilde.

8. What is the site that arouses Claude's enthusiasm after failing again to be included in the Salon?
(a) ice on the Seine.
(b) Cathedral Notre Dame.
(c) the Eiffel Tower.
(d) the Ile de la Cité.

9. How do Claude's friends react to his latest painting?
(a) they want him to offer it to Naudet.
(b) they hail it as a masterpiece.
(c) they think it is too small for a work by Claude.
(d) they look at it but do not comment.

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

11. What time does Claude return to his studio home?
(a) about dawn.
(b) the next day.
(c) about three in the morning.
(d) a week later.

12. Why does Claude at first not find his painting of the Dead Child?
(a) it is hung in a small room where almost no one goes.
(b) it is hung in a hallway.
(c) it is hung near the exit in dim light.
(d) it is hung very high over large canvases.

13. After finally getting Claude back in bed, what happens in Claude's head?
(a) he hears the woman in his painting calling him.
(b) he hears the laughter of the people in the Salon.
(c) he plots how to get rid of Christine.
(d) he has a stroke and becomes paralyzed.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Claude think his painting of the dead Jacques may be accepted by the Salon committee?

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

3. What does Sandoz think might be better for true artists?

4. How does Christine began to feel about her relationship with Claude?

5. Why has Dubuche been exiled to his father-in-law's home in the country?

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